Gary
How many real pets are named Gary, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Gary as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 108 pets are named Gary: 84 dogs, 24 cats. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #911 among dog names and #443 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Gary
Dogs
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Gary
- New York City: 63licensed
- Austin shelter: 30shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 8shelter
- Seattle: 6licensed
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
Gary as a human name
This is the meaning of Gary as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from the Germanic languages, popular from the 1940s to the 1970s; variant form Garry.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Gary
Dog names about as popular as Gary
Gary FAQ
How many pets are named Gary?
In the public pet records we track, 108 pets are named Gary: 84 dogs, 24 cats. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #911 among dog names and #443 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Gary?
Among dogs named Gary 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); 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.