Holly
How many real pets are named Holly, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Holly as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 515 pets are named Holly: 460 dogs, 52 cats, 1 other, 1 rabbit, 1 bird. Where sex was recorded, 99% are female and 1% male. It ranks #160 among dog names and #207 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Holly
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 39
- Chihuahua: 25
- German Shepherd: 21
- Shih Tzu: 17
- Pit Bull: 14
Cats
Others
- American: 1
Rabbits
- Rabbit Sh: 1
Birds
- Chicken: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Holly
- New York City: 267licensed
- Toronto: 89licensed
- Austin shelter: 61shelter
- Burnside (SA): 36licensed
- Seattle: 25licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 13shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 9licensed
- Zurich: 6licensed
- Adelaide: 3licensed
- Prospect (SA): 3licensed
- Richmond, VA: 3licensed
Holly as a human name
This is the meaning of Holly as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from English. Root meaning: “holly”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Holly
Dog names about as popular as Holly
Holly FAQ
How many pets are named Holly?
In the public pet records we track, 515 pets are named Holly: 460 dogs, 52 cats, 1 other, 1 rabbit, 1 bird. Where sex was recorded, 99% are female and 1% male. It ranks #160 among dog names and #207 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Holly?
Among dogs named Holly 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.