Ariel
How many real pets are named Ariel, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Ariel as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 140 pets are named Ariel: 115 dogs, 24 cats, 1 rabbit. Where sex was recorded, 96% are female and 4% male. It ranks #669 among dog names and #438 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Ariel
Dogs
- Shih Tzu: 9
- Pit Bull: 8
- Chihuahua: 7
- Maltese: 6
- Yorkshire Terrier: 5
Cats
Rabbits
- Rabbit Sh: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Ariel
- New York City: 86licensed
- Austin shelter: 38shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 8shelter
- Seattle: 4licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 3licensed
- Zurich: 1licensed
Ariel as a human name
This is the meaning of Ariel as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Hebrew, also ascribed to spirits and angels in English literature.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Ariel
Dog names about as popular as Ariel
Ariel FAQ
How many pets are named Ariel?
In the public pet records we track, 140 pets are named Ariel: 115 dogs, 24 cats, 1 rabbit. Where sex was recorded, 96% are female and 4% male. It ranks #669 among dog names and #438 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Ariel?
Among dogs named Ariel 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); Dogs of Cambridge (ODC PDDL); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); 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.