Buffy
How many real pets are named Buffy, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Buffy as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 166 pets are named Buffy: 146 dogs, 20 cats. Where sex was recorded, 97% are female and 3% male. It ranks #536 among dog names and #527 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Buffy
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 9
- Pit Bull: 9
- German Shepherd: 9
- Havanese: 6
- Chihuahua: 6
Cats
- Domestic Shorthair: 14
- Domestic Longhair: 2
- Siamese: 1
- Laperm: 1
- Maine Coon: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Buffy
- New York City: 109licensed
- Austin shelter: 34shelter
- Seattle: 7licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 6shelter
- Burnside (SA): 3licensed
- Zurich: 2licensed
- Adelaide: 2licensed
- Prospect (SA): 2licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 1licensed
Buffy as a human name
This is the meaning of Buffy as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Buffy
Dog names about as popular as Buffy
Buffy FAQ
How many pets are named Buffy?
In the public pet records we track, 166 pets are named Buffy: 146 dogs, 20 cats. Where sex was recorded, 97% are female and 3% male. It ranks #536 among dog names and #527 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Buffy?
Among dogs named Buffy 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); 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); 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.