Dora
How many real pets are named Dora, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Dora as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 155 pets are named Dora: 131 dogs, 23 cats, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 99% are female and 1% male. It ranks #593 among dog names and #460 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Dora
Dogs
- Chihuahua: 10
- Shih Tzu: 7
- Dachshund: 7
- Maltese: 6
- Labrador Retriever: 5
Cats
Others
- Netherlnd Dwarf: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Dora
- New York City: 94licensed
- Austin shelter: 31shelter
- Seattle: 10licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 5shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 4licensed
- Richmond, VA: 4licensed
- Zurich: 3licensed
- Burnside (SA): 2licensed
- Adelaide: 1licensed
- Prospect (SA): 1licensed
Dora as a human name
This is the meaning of Dora as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Dora
Dog names about as popular as Dora
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How many pets are named Dora?
In the public pet records we track, 155 pets are named Dora: 131 dogs, 23 cats, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 99% are female and 1% male. It ranks #593 among dog names and #460 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Dora?
Among dogs named Dora in these records, the most common breed is Chihuahua.
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); 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.