Greta
How many real pets are named Greta, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Greta as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 172 pets are named Greta: 141 dogs, 30 cats, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 99% are female and 1% male. It ranks #560 among dog names and #349 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Greta
Dogs
- German Shepherd: 18
- Dachshund: 9
- Pit Bull: 8
- Chihuahua: 7
- Labrador Retriever: 6
Cats
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Greta
- New York City: 77licensed
- Austin shelter: 50shelter
- Seattle: 19licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 10shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 8licensed
- Zurich: 5licensed
- Richmond, VA: 3licensed
Greta as a human name
This is the meaning of Greta as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Greta
Dog names about as popular as Greta
Greta FAQ
How many pets are named Greta?
In the public pet records we track, 172 pets are named Greta: 141 dogs, 30 cats, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 99% are female and 1% male. It ranks #560 among dog names and #349 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Greta?
Among dogs named Greta in these records, the most common breed is German Shepherd.
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.