Ivy
How many real pets are named Ivy, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Ivy as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 450 pets are named Ivy: 366 dogs, 83 cats, 1 bird. Where sex was recorded, 99% are female and 1% male. It ranks #203 among dog names and #96 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Ivy
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 30
- Labrador Retriever: 18
- German Shepherd: 16
- Chihuahua: 15
- Maltese: 9
Cats
Birds
- Chicken: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Ivy
- New York City: 188licensed
- Toronto: 90licensed
- Austin shelter: 72shelter
- Seattle: 49licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 18licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 17shelter
- Zurich: 6licensed
- Burnside (SA): 5licensed
- Richmond, VA: 4licensed
- Adelaide: 1licensed
Ivy as a human name
This is the meaning of Ivy as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A unisex given name from English.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Dog names about as popular as Ivy
Ivy FAQ
How many pets are named Ivy?
In the public pet records we track, 450 pets are named Ivy: 366 dogs, 83 cats, 1 bird. Where sex was recorded, 99% are female and 1% male. It ranks #203 among dog names and #96 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Ivy?
Among dogs named Ivy 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); 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.