Bella
How many real pets are named Bella, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Bella as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 5,175 pets are named Bella: 4,898 dogs, 272 cats, 3 guinea pigs, 1 rabbit, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 99% are female and 1% male. It ranks #1 among dog names and #4 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Bella
Dogs
- Yorkshire Terrier: 388
- Shih Tzu: 362
- Pit Bull: 323
- Chihuahua: 267
- Labrador Retriever: 240
Cats
Rabbits
- Rabbit Sh: 1
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 3
Others
- Himalayan: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Bella
- New York City: 3,461licensed
- Austin shelter: 605shelter
- Toronto: 563licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 154shelter
- Seattle: 150licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 76licensed
- Burnside (SA): 68licensed
- Zurich: 42licensed
- Richmond, VA: 33licensed
- Adelaide: 13licensed
- Prospect (SA): 10licensed
Bella as a human name
This is the meaning of Bella as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from Italian. Root meaning: “beautiful”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Bella
Dog names about as popular as Bella
Bella FAQ
How many pets are named Bella?
In the public pet records we track, 5,175 pets are named Bella: 4,898 dogs, 272 cats, 3 guinea pigs, 1 rabbit, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 99% are female and 1% male. It ranks #1 among dog names and #4 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Bella?
Among dogs named Bella in these records, the most common breed is Yorkshire Terrier.
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.