Alyssa
How many real pets are named Alyssa, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Alyssa as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 6 pets are named Alyssa: 5 dogs, 1 cat. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #7,388 among dog names and #6,851 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Alyssa
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 2
- Canaan Dog: 1
- Portuguese Water Dog: 1
- Terrier: 1
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Alyssa
- New York City: 3licensed
- Austin shelter: 3shelter
Alyssa as a human name
This is the meaning of Alyssa as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from the Germanic languages, popular in the US in the 1990s and the 2000s. Root meaning: “a plant of the genus Alyssum”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Alyssa
Dog names about as popular as Alyssa
Alyssa FAQ
How many pets are named Alyssa?
In the public pet records we track, 6 pets are named Alyssa: 5 dogs, 1 cat. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #7,388 among dog names and #6,851 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Alyssa?
Among dogs named Alyssa in these records, the most common breed is Pit Bull.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); 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.