Athena
How many real pets are named Athena, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Athena as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 554 pets are named Athena: 472 dogs, 80 cats, 1 rabbit, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #153 among dog names and #104 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Athena
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 68
- German Shepherd: 35
- Labrador Retriever: 32
- Siberian Husky: 26
- Yorkshire Terrier: 11
Cats
Rabbits
- Rabbit Sh: 1
Others
- Flemish Giant: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Athena
- New York City: 284licensed
- Austin shelter: 139shelter
- Toronto: 65licensed
- Seattle: 32licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 18shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 12licensed
- Zurich: 2licensed
- Burnside (SA): 1licensed
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
Athena as a human name
This is the meaning of Athena as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Athena
Dog names about as popular as Athena
Athena FAQ
How many pets are named Athena?
In the public pet records we track, 554 pets are named Athena: 472 dogs, 80 cats, 1 rabbit, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #153 among dog names and #104 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Athena?
Among dogs named Athena in these records, the most common breed is Pit Bull.
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); 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.