Gigi
How many real pets are named Gigi, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Gigi as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 695 pets are named Gigi: 632 dogs, 63 cats. Where sex was recorded, 96% are female and 4% male. It ranks #118 among dog names and #153 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Gigi
Dogs
- Shih Tzu: 63
- Chihuahua: 52
- Yorkshire Terrier: 42
- Toy Poodle: 20
- Pit Bull: 20
Cats
- Domestic Shorthair: 31
- Domestic Longhair: 3
- Siamese: 2
- American Shorthair: 1
- Manx: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Gigi
- New York City: 455licensed
- Toronto: 86licensed
- Austin shelter: 71shelter
- Seattle: 39licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 14licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 13shelter
- Richmond, VA: 7licensed
- Zurich: 5licensed
- Burnside (SA): 5licensed
Gigi as a human name
This is the meaning of Gigi as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from French.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Dog names about as popular as Gigi
Gigi FAQ
How many pets are named Gigi?
In the public pet records we track, 695 pets are named Gigi: 632 dogs, 63 cats. Where sex was recorded, 96% are female and 4% male. It ranks #118 among dog names and #153 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Gigi?
Among dogs named Gigi in these records, the most common breed is Shih Tzu.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); Dogs of Cambridge (ODC PDDL); Licensed Dog and Cat Names, City of Toronto (Open Government Licence – Toronto); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Burnside Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); 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.