Alfie
How many real pets are named Alfie, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Alfie as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 513 pets are named Alfie: 483 dogs, 30 cats. Where sex was recorded, 4% are female and 96% male. It ranks #152 among dog names and #341 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Alfie
Dogs
- Chihuahua: 34
- Labrador Retriever: 23
- Maltese: 16
- Shih Tzu: 15
- Poodle: 14
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Alfie
- New York City: 299licensed
- Toronto: 81licensed
- Austin shelter: 38shelter
- Seattle: 28licensed
- Burnside (SA): 23licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 22licensed
- Zurich: 8licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 7shelter
- Adelaide: 3licensed
- Prospect (SA): 2licensed
- Richmond, VA: 2licensed
Alfie as a human name
This is the meaning of Alfie as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the male given names Alfred and Alfonso, from the Germanic languages, also used as a formal given name.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Alfie
Dog names about as popular as Alfie
Alfie FAQ
How many pets are named Alfie?
In the public pet records we track, 513 pets are named Alfie: 483 dogs, 30 cats. Where sex was recorded, 4% are female and 96% male. It ranks #152 among dog names and #341 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Alfie?
Among dogs named Alfie in these records, the most common breed is Chihuahua.
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.