Clyde
How many real pets are named Clyde, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Clyde as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 275 pets are named Clyde: 218 dogs, 55 cats, 2 birds. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #363 among dog names and #197 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Clyde
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 24
- Pit Bull: 14
- Beagle: 8
- Chihuahua: 8
- Boxer: 7
Cats
Birds
- Lovebird: 1
- Chicken: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Clyde
- New York City: 140licensed
- Austin shelter: 72shelter
- Seattle: 23licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 16shelter
- Toronto: 15licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 4licensed
- Richmond, VA: 4licensed
- Zurich: 1licensed
Clyde as a human name
This is the meaning of Clyde as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name transferred from the place name (the River Clyde in Scotland). Root meaning: “the cleansing one”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Dog names about as popular as Clyde
Clyde FAQ
How many pets are named Clyde?
In the public pet records we track, 275 pets are named Clyde: 218 dogs, 55 cats, 2 birds. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #363 among dog names and #197 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Clyde?
Among dogs named Clyde 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); 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.