# Bagheera

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #96,756

## Definitions
1. A cat name; a name given to pet cats.

## Etymology
From Hindi बाघ (bāgh, “tiger”), coined by Rudyard Kipling in The Jungle Book. The scouting term and the cat-name comes from the character name.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/bagheera