Dotty
How many real pets are named Dotty, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Dotty as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 50 pets are named Dotty: 44 dogs, 6 cats. Where sex was recorded, 93% are female and 7% male. It ranks #1,615 among dog names and #1,761 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Dotty
Dogs
- Shiba Inu: 3
- Shih Tzu: 2
- Pit Bull: 2
- Australian Shepherd: 2
- German Shepherd: 2
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Dotty
- New York City: 27licensed
- Austin shelter: 13shelter
- Seattle: 5licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 2licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 2shelter
- Zurich: 1licensed
Dotty as a human name
This is the meaning of Dotty as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the female given name Dorothy, also spelled Dottie.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Dotty
Dog names about as popular as Dotty
Dotty FAQ
How many pets are named Dotty?
In the public pet records we track, 50 pets are named Dotty: 44 dogs, 6 cats. Where sex was recorded, 93% are female and 7% male. It ranks #1,615 among dog names and #1,761 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Dotty?
Among dogs named Dotty in these records, the most common breed is Shiba Inu.
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.