Blue
How many real pets are named Blue, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Blue as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 1,639 pets are named Blue: 1,514 dogs, 124 cats, 1 snake. Where sex was recorded, 24% are female and 76% male. It ranks #30 among dog names and #45 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Blue
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 321
- Siberian Husky: 86
- Labrador Retriever: 72
- Chihuahua: 43
- Yorkshire Terrier: 34
Cats
Snakes
- Snake: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Blue
- New York City: 989licensed
- Austin shelter: 337shelter
- Toronto: 139licensed
- Seattle: 60licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 60shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 25licensed
- Zurich: 17licensed
- Richmond, VA: 9licensed
- Burnside (SA): 2licensed
- Prospect (SA): 1licensed
Blue as a human name
This is the meaning of Blue as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from English, typically used in conjoined names like Bonnie Blue or Blue Bell.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Dog names about as popular as Blue
Blue FAQ
How many pets are named Blue?
In the public pet records we track, 1,639 pets are named Blue: 1,514 dogs, 124 cats, 1 snake. Where sex was recorded, 24% are female and 76% male. It ranks #30 among dog names and #45 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Blue?
Among dogs named Blue 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); 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.