(UPDATE: We’ve added a few mascots to the list Thursday, including locals like the Sea Kings and Diablos, and other priceless state names like the Barristers, Honkers and Haybalers.

Some of the histories are hard to come by, the details squishy. If you can enlighten us, please do!)

There are plenty of Cougars out there: the Brigham Young Cougars, the Washington State University Cougars, the fighting Cougars of East Junior High in Rock Springs, Wyo.

But when school officials were trying to come up with a mascot name for the new Corner Canyon High School in Draper, Utah, they passed over the noble big cat to represent the school when it opens in 2013, even though it was the most popular entry in voting by future students.

As Fox affiliate KSTU-TV reported, the school board expressed concern that the word “cougar” might be offensive to some women. In recent years, of course, it’s become a synonym for a middle-aged woman who goes after younger men, not unlike how a mountain cat might prey on a defenseless bunny. The term reached its cultural apex when Courteney Cox (pictured, with Busy Phillips) starred in the ABC series “Cougar Town,” whose third season premieres Feb. 14.

There was also a “cougar convention” in Orange County last year, so the phenomenon definitely has legs. Or paws.

Instead of Cougars, the Utah school mascot will be Chargers, just like our very own San Diego Chargers and El Toro High School Chargers in Lake Forest.

“Unless, of course, someone decides that would be offensive to people who use credit cards,” quipped USA Today’s GameOn! blog.

What do you think? In case the school board wants to change the name again, we have a few suggestions: Click on the image to see a few of the quirkier high school mascot names in California.