Cookie
Cookie is an English food word for a small sweet baked item. The food sense is the reference documented for this cat-name entry. Computer cookies are a separate dictionary sense; a name chosen for a snack does not automatically carry that technical meaning.
- Meaning
- A small sweet baked cake or biscuit
- Name or word origin
- English food word
Sources and meaning notes
The citation supports the food reading. No claim is made that the name has an independent cultural or personal-name translation.
- Merriam-Webster: cookie The English word and its documented lexical sense; not a claim about every possible personal-name origin
References checked .
Catalog grouping: Female. This is a browsing label and does not restrict which cats can use the name.
Popularity in cited datasets
Each position below belongs to its publisher’s sample and time period. These are not iCatNames registration counts or a combined ranking.
| Dataset scope | Position | Source |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. cat names — top 100 | #64 | Rover catalog (checked 2026-10-26; undated) |
An undated catalog checked in 2026 is not a 2025 annual result. Historical reports keep their published period. Source records on this page were checked on 2026-10-26.
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These entries have source references and overlap with this name in the site’s editorial collections. The overlap does not measure pet-owner preferences or prove a shared linguistic origin.