Cecil
How many real pets are named Cecil, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Cecil as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 35 pets are named Cecil: 29 dogs, 6 cats. Where sex was recorded, 7% are female and 93% male. It ranks #2,240 among dog names and #1,799 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Cecil
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 4
- Beagle: 3
- Chihuahua: 2
- Yorkshire Terrier: 2
- Pembroke Welsh Corgi: 2
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Cecil
- New York City: 17licensed
- Austin shelter: 10shelter
- Seattle: 4licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 3licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 1shelter
Cecil as a human name
This is the meaning of Cecil as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A unisex given name from Latin. Root meaning: “blind”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Cecil
Dog names about as popular as Cecil
Cecil FAQ
How many pets are named Cecil?
In the public pet records we track, 35 pets are named Cecil: 29 dogs, 6 cats. Where sex was recorded, 7% are female and 93% male. It ranks #2,240 among dog names and #1,799 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Cecil?
Among dogs named Cecil 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); 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.