Elvis
How many real pets are named Elvis, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Elvis as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 278 pets are named Elvis: 255 dogs, 21 cats, 1 bird, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #309 among dog names and #502 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Elvis
Dogs
- Chihuahua: 16
- Beagle: 14
- Maltese: 13
- Labrador Retriever: 13
- Pit Bull: 12
Cats
Birds
- Muscovy: 1
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Elvis
- New York City: 196licensed
- Austin shelter: 54shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 12shelter
- Seattle: 8licensed
- Zurich: 4licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 3licensed
- Burnside (SA): 1licensed
Elvis as a human name
This is the meaning of Elvis as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Elvis
Dog names about as popular as Elvis
Elvis FAQ
How many pets are named Elvis?
In the public pet records we track, 278 pets are named Elvis: 255 dogs, 21 cats, 1 bird, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #309 among dog names and #502 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Elvis?
Among dogs named Elvis 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.