Cash

Cash is an English occupational surname derived from Old French or Latin roots related to making or keeping a money box — a cashier by trade. In the modern era it became inseparably associated with Johnny Cash, the country music legend whose dark, powerful artistry gave the name an entirely different kind of cultural weight. For pets, Cash evokes both that outlaw country spirit and a certain cool, unruffled confidence — the name of a companion who does things their own way and makes it look effortless.

Cash holds #236 on the pet name charts and has a quietly magnetic appeal that is hard to explain but impossible to miss. Whether the association is Johnny Cash's iconic gravitas or simply the word's confident, one-syllable punch, Cash suits a companion with a certain cool self-possession. It's the name for a pet who doesn't perform for anyone — who is simply, authentically themselves, take it or leave it. Compact and decisive, Cash is the kind of name that sounds right the moment you hear it applied to the right companion.