Elmo
How many real pets are named Elmo, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Elmo as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 66 pets are named Elmo: 53 dogs, 13 cats. Where sex was recorded, 5% are female and 95% male. It ranks #1,349 among dog names and #855 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Elmo
Dogs
- Chihuahua: 5
- Labrador Retriever: 3
- Shih Tzu: 3
- Beagle: 3
- Miniature Poodle: 2
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Elmo
- New York City: 36licensed
- Austin shelter: 14shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 5licensed
- Seattle: 4licensed
- Zurich: 3licensed
- Burnside (SA): 2licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 2shelter
Elmo as a human name
This is the meaning of Elmo as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Italian.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Elmo
Dog names about as popular as Elmo
Elmo FAQ
How many pets are named Elmo?
In the public pet records we track, 66 pets are named Elmo: 53 dogs, 13 cats. Where sex was recorded, 5% are female and 95% male. It ranks #1,349 among dog names and #855 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Elmo?
Among dogs named Elmo 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); Burnside Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); 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.