Dewey
How many real pets are named Dewey, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Dewey as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 110 pets are named Dewey: 85 dogs, 25 cats. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #899 among dog names and #420 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Dewey
Dogs
- Beagle: 6
- Chihuahua: 6
- Shih Tzu: 5
- Pit Bull: 4
- Labrador Retriever: 3
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Dewey
- New York City: 56licensed
- Austin shelter: 26shelter
- Seattle: 12licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 8shelter
- Richmond, VA: 4licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 3licensed
- Zurich: 1licensed
Dewey as a human name
This is the meaning of Dewey as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name transferred from the surname, of 1890s American usage.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Dog names about as popular as Dewey
Dewey FAQ
How many pets are named Dewey?
In the public pet records we track, 110 pets are named Dewey: 85 dogs, 25 cats. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #899 among dog names and #420 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Dewey?
Among dogs named Dewey in these records, the most common breed is Beagle.
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); 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.