The results are in! As the world’s largest registry of pedigreed cats with 46 recognized breeds, the Cat Fanciers’ Association (CFA) is the leading authority on our pedigreed friends, each year tallying the most popular cat breeds by breeder registry worldwide. the world. The data collected by the CFA is not an exact “count” of each breed, says Teresa Keiger, CFA all-breed judge and editor of CFA’s Cat Talk magazine; however, there is a correlation between the number of registered cat breeders and the number of pedigreed cats kept in households around the world.