Happy
How many real pets are named Happy, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Happy as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 387 pets are named Happy: 370 dogs, 16 cats, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 40% are female and 60% male. It ranks #200 among dog names and #659 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Happy
Dogs
- Yorkshire Terrier: 24
- Maltese: 21
- Labrador Retriever: 19
- Shih Tzu: 18
- Chihuahua: 17
Cats
Others
- Californian: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Happy
- New York City: 245licensed
- Austin shelter: 53shelter
- Toronto: 43licensed
- Seattle: 15licensed
- Zurich: 12licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 10shelter
- Burnside (SA): 6licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 2licensed
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
Happy as a human name
This is the meaning of Happy as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Dog names about as popular as Happy
Happy FAQ
How many pets are named Happy?
In the public pet records we track, 387 pets are named Happy: 370 dogs, 16 cats, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 40% are female and 60% male. It ranks #200 among dog names and #659 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Happy?
Among dogs named Happy in these records, the most common breed is Yorkshire Terrier.
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.