Dylan
How many real pets are named Dylan, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Dylan as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 162 pets are named Dylan: 146 dogs, 16 cats. Where sex was recorded, 11% are female and 89% male. It ranks #538 among dog names and #671 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Dylan
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 12
- Yorkshire Terrier: 11
- Pit Bull: 8
- Chihuahua: 6
- Shih Tzu: 5
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Dylan
- New York City: 119licensed
- Austin shelter: 27shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 7shelter
- Seattle: 4licensed
- Zurich: 2licensed
- Richmond, VA: 2licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 1licensed
Dylan as a human name
This is the meaning of Dylan as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Welsh.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Dog names about as popular as Dylan
Dylan FAQ
How many pets are named Dylan?
In the public pet records we track, 162 pets are named Dylan: 146 dogs, 16 cats. Where sex was recorded, 11% are female and 89% male. It ranks #538 among dog names and #671 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Dylan?
Among dogs named Dylan in these records, the most common breed is Labrador Retriever.
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.