Iris
How many real pets are named Iris, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Iris as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 204 pets are named Iris: 134 dogs, 70 cats. Where sex was recorded, 97% are female and 3% male. It ranks #581 among dog names and #131 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Iris
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 12
- Labrador Retriever: 11
- German Shepherd: 7
- Chihuahua: 6
- Terrier: 5
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Iris
- New York City: 78licensed
- Austin shelter: 68shelter
- Seattle: 28licensed
- Toronto: 15licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 6shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 5licensed
- Zurich: 4licensed
Iris as a human name
This is the meaning of Iris as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from Ancient Greek; a flower name used since the end of the 19th century.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Iris
Dog names about as popular as Iris
Iris FAQ
How many pets are named Iris?
In the public pet records we track, 204 pets are named Iris: 134 dogs, 70 cats. Where sex was recorded, 97% are female and 3% male. It ranks #581 among dog names and #131 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Iris?
Among dogs named Iris in these records, the most common breed is Pit Bull.
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); 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.