Heidi
How many real pets are named Heidi, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Heidi as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 297 pets are named Heidi: 277 dogs, 20 cats. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #279 among dog names and #517 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Heidi
Dogs
- German Shepherd: 25
- Pit Bull: 16
- Labrador Retriever: 14
- Chihuahua: 10
- Dachshund: 9
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Heidi
- New York City: 145licensed
- Austin shelter: 63shelter
- Toronto: 46licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 18shelter
- Seattle: 8licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 5licensed
- Burnside (SA): 5licensed
- Zurich: 4licensed
- Richmond, VA: 2licensed
- Adelaide: 1licensed
Heidi as a human name
This is the meaning of Heidi as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Dog names about as popular as Heidi
Heidi FAQ
How many pets are named Heidi?
In the public pet records we track, 297 pets are named Heidi: 277 dogs, 20 cats. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #279 among dog names and #517 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Heidi?
Among dogs named Heidi 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); 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); 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.