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Alex

How many real pets are named Alex, which animals and breeds have it, and where.

179 real pets#542 dog name#302 cat name8 places

How popular is Alex as a pet name?

■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals

In the public pet records we track, 179 pets are named Alex: 145 dogs, 34 cats. Where sex was recorded, 12% are female and 88% male. It ranks #542 among dog names and #302 among cat names.

Breeds most often named Alex

Dogs

Cats

Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.

Where pets are named Alex

Alex as a human name

This is the meaning of Alex as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.

A unisex given name from Ancient Greek.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Names similar to Alex

Dog names about as popular as Alex

Alex FAQ

How many pets are named Alex?

In the public pet records we track, 179 pets are named Alex: 145 dogs, 34 cats. Where sex was recorded, 12% are female and 88% male. It ranks #542 among dog names and #302 among cat names.

What breed is most often named Alex?

Among dogs named Alex in these records, the most common breed is Shih Tzu.

Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Dog Registrations, City of Adelaide (CC BY 3.0 AU); Burnside 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.