Billy
How many real pets are named Billy, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Billy as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 385 pets are named Billy: 327 dogs, 56 cats, 1 other, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 7% are female and 93% male. It ranks #227 among dog names and #192 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Billy
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 22
- Pit Bull: 18
- Chihuahua: 17
- Maltese: 15
- Yorkshire Terrier: 8
Cats
Others
- English Spot: 1
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Billy
- New York City: 191licensed
- Toronto: 60licensed
- Austin shelter: 56shelter
- Burnside (SA): 23licensed
- Seattle: 21licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 15shelter
- Zurich: 9licensed
- Prospect (SA): 5licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 3licensed
- Adelaide: 1licensed
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
Billy as a human name
This is the meaning of Billy as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the male given name William.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Dog names about as popular as Billy
Billy FAQ
How many pets are named Billy?
In the public pet records we track, 385 pets are named Billy: 327 dogs, 56 cats, 1 other, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 7% are female and 93% male. It ranks #227 among dog names and #192 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Billy?
Among dogs named Billy in these records, the most common breed is Labrador Retriever.
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.