Pumpkin
Pumpkin is an English plant and food word, commonly referring to the rounded orange fruit of a vine in the gourd family. A cat name can refer to that fruit or its colour. Luck, prosperity and a gentle temperament are not treated here as literal meanings.
- Meaning
- The pumpkin fruit or plant
- Name or word origin
- English word name
Sources and meaning notes
The word reference is supported; symbolic associations from uncited naming lists are not repeated as facts.
- Merriam-Webster: pumpkin The English word and its documented lexical sense; not a claim about every possible personal-name origin
References checked .
Catalog grouping: Male. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| New customer cats, January–December 2024 | #8 | Pumpkin customer cats (2024 data) |
| U.S. cat names — top 100 | #22 | 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.
Compare the checked ranking snapshotsNames in similar collections to Pumpkin
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.