Bessy
How many real pets are named Bessy, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Bessy as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 6 pets are named Bessy: 5 dogs, 1 cat. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #7,302 among dog names and #6,765 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Bessy
Dogs
- Chow Chow: 1
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Bessy
- New York City: 3licensed
- Austin shelter: 2shelter
- Zurich: 1licensed
Bessy as a human name
This is the meaning of Bessy as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth; today more often spelled Bessie.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Bessy
Dog names about as popular as Bessy
Bessy FAQ
How many pets are named Bessy?
In the public pet records we track, 6 pets are named Bessy: 5 dogs, 1 cat. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #7,302 among dog names and #6,765 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Bessy?
Among dogs named Bessy in these records, the most common breed is Chow Chow.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); 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.