Abby
How many real pets are named Abby, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Abby as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 720 pets are named Abby: 644 dogs, 75 cats, 1 rat. Where sex was recorded, 99% are female and 1% male. It ranks #110 among dog names and #115 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Abby
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 61
- Pit Bull: 27
- Chihuahua: 27
- Yorkshire Terrier: 21
- Shih Tzu: 19
Cats
Rats
- Rat: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Abby
- New York City: 346licensed
- Toronto: 138licensed
- Austin shelter: 112shelter
- Seattle: 47licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 36shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 16licensed
- Richmond, VA: 9licensed
- Burnside (SA): 8licensed
- Zurich: 6licensed
- Adelaide: 1licensed
- Prospect (SA): 1licensed
Abby as a human name
This is the meaning of Abby as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the female given name Abigail, from Hebrew, also used as a formal given name.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Abby
Dog names about as popular as Abby
Abby FAQ
How many pets are named Abby?
In the public pet records we track, 720 pets are named Abby: 644 dogs, 75 cats, 1 rat. Where sex was recorded, 99% are female and 1% male. It ranks #110 among dog names and #115 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Abby?
Among dogs named Abby in these records, the most common breed is Labrador Retriever.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); Dogs of Cambridge (ODC PDDL); Licensed Dog and Cat Names, City of Toronto (Open Government Licence – Toronto); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Dog Registrations, City of Adelaide (CC BY 3.0 AU); Burnside Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); City of Prospect Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); Pet Licenses, City of Richmond; Animal Shelter Intake and Outcome, County of Sonoma; Austin Animal Center Outcomes (public domain). License records count registered pets; shelter records count animals that passed through a shelter (some names are given by staff). Pets that appear in several years of one dataset are counted once. Names are counted as written, so spelling variants are separate.