Alvin
How many real pets are named Alvin, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Alvin as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 78 pets are named Alvin: 65 dogs, 12 cats, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 0% are female and 100% male. It ranks #1,137 among dog names and #921 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Alvin
Dogs
- Chihuahua: 12
- Labrador Retriever: 6
- Maltese: 4
- Pit Bull: 4
- Yorkshire Terrier: 3
Cats
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Alvin
- New York City: 48licensed
- Austin shelter: 22shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 4licensed
- Seattle: 2licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 2shelter
Alvin as a human name
This is the meaning of Alvin as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Old English. Root meaning: “elf”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Dog names about as popular as Alvin
Alvin FAQ
How many pets are named Alvin?
In the public pet records we track, 78 pets are named Alvin: 65 dogs, 12 cats, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 0% are female and 100% male. It ranks #1,137 among dog names and #921 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Alvin?
Among dogs named Alvin 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); 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.