Tiger
Tiger is the English animal word for Panthera tigris, a large Asian member of the cat family. The dictionary also records a use for a domestic cat with a striped pattern. Using it as a pet name does not mean the pet belongs to the wild species.
- Meaning
- The tiger animal; also a word for a striped domestic cat
- Name or word origin
- English word name
Sources and meaning notes
The wild-animal meaning and the domestic striped-cat dictionary sense are explicitly distinguished.
- Merriam-Webster: tiger The cited English dictionary senses; not a claim that every pet with this name was named for that sense
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Catalog grouping: Male. This is a browsing label and does not restrict which cats can use the name.
Names in similar collections to Tiger
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.