Dorothy
How many real pets are named Dorothy, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Dorothy as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 64 pets are named Dorothy: 48 dogs, 15 cats, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 98% are female and 2% male. It ranks #1,472 among dog names and #733 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Dorothy
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 6
- Chihuahua: 6
- Labrador Retriever: 3
- Havanese: 2
- Cairn Terrier: 2
Cats
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Dorothy
- New York City: 35licensed
- Austin shelter: 22shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 3shelter
- Seattle: 2licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 1licensed
- Zurich: 1licensed
Dorothy as a human name
This is the meaning of Dorothy 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 Dorothy
Dog names about as popular as Dorothy
Dorothy FAQ
How many pets are named Dorothy?
In the public pet records we track, 64 pets are named Dorothy: 48 dogs, 15 cats, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 98% are female and 2% male. It ranks #1,472 among dog names and #733 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Dorothy?
Among dogs named Dorothy 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); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); 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.