Dorian
How many real pets are named Dorian, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Dorian as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 17 pets are named Dorian: 12 dogs, 5 cats. Where sex was recorded, 7% are female and 93% male. It ranks #4,080 among dog names and #2,186 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Dorian
Dogs
- Miniature Poodle: 3
- German Shepherd: 2
- Scottish Terrier: 1
- Australian Cattle Dog: 1
- Yorkshire Terrier: 1
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Dorian
- New York City: 8licensed
- Austin shelter: 6shelter
- Seattle: 1licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 1licensed
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
Dorian as a human name
This is the meaning of Dorian as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Ancient Greek, famously used by Oscar Wilde in his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Dorian
Dog names about as popular as Dorian
Dorian FAQ
How many pets are named Dorian?
In the public pet records we track, 17 pets are named Dorian: 12 dogs, 5 cats. Where sex was recorded, 7% are female and 93% male. It ranks #4,080 among dog names and #2,186 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Dorian?
Among dogs named Dorian in these records, the most common breed is Miniature Poodle.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); Dogs of Cambridge (ODC PDDL); Pet Licenses, City of Richmond; 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.