Alec
How many real pets are named Alec, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Alec as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 7 pets are named Alec: 6 dogs, 1 cat. Where sex was recorded, 14% are female and 86% male. It ranks #6,485 among dog names and #6,546 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Alec
Dogs
Cats
- Siamese: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Alec
- New York City: 5licensed
- Zurich: 1licensed
- Austin shelter: 1shelter
Alec as a human name
This is the meaning of Alec as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the male given name Alexander, from Ancient Greek, of Scottish origin.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Alec
Dog names about as popular as Alec
Alec FAQ
How many pets are named Alec?
In the public pet records we track, 7 pets are named Alec: 6 dogs, 1 cat. Where sex was recorded, 14% are female and 86% male. It ranks #6,485 among dog names and #6,546 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Alec?
Among dogs named Alec in these records, the most common breed is Border Collie.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); 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.