America’s most-popular cat names for 2025 have been revealed. Cat names matter, not least to the cats themselves. In 2019, a study published in Scientific Reports found cats were even capable of recognizing their own name. As part of the experiment, researchers played a voice saying four different words, followed by the cat’s name . Each was said in the same intonation with the cat’s response carefully monitored on video. While the cats rarely did more than twitch an ear or move their heads,