Harvey
How many real pets are named Harvey, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Harvey as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 321 pets are named Harvey: 297 dogs, 21 cats, 2 guinea pigs, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #255 among dog names and #501 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Harvey
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 18
- Chihuahua: 14
- Pit Bull: 11
- Terrier: 8
- Golden Retriever: 7
Cats
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 2
Others
- Parrot: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Harvey
- New York City: 171licensed
- Austin shelter: 50shelter
- Toronto: 43licensed
- Seattle: 19licensed
- Burnside (SA): 19licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 5licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 4shelter
- Zurich: 3licensed
- Adelaide: 3licensed
- Prospect (SA): 2licensed
- Richmond, VA: 2licensed
Harvey as a human name
This is the meaning of Harvey as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A surname transferred from the given name. Root meaning: “iron”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Harvey
Dog names about as popular as Harvey
Harvey FAQ
How many pets are named Harvey?
In the public pet records we track, 321 pets are named Harvey: 297 dogs, 21 cats, 2 guinea pigs, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #255 among dog names and #501 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Harvey?
Among dogs named Harvey in these records, the most common breed is Labrador Retriever.
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); Dog Registrations, City of Adelaide (CC BY 3.0 AU); Burnside Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); City of Prospect 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.