Jay
How many real pets are named Jay, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Jay as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 149 pets are named Jay: 137 dogs, 12 cats. Where sex was recorded, 8% are female and 92% male. It ranks #578 among dog names and #901 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Jay
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 13
- Chihuahua: 11
- Shih Tzu: 9
- Yorkshire Terrier: 8
- Labrador Retriever: 8
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Jay
- New York City: 119licensed
- Austin shelter: 20shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 4shelter
- Zurich: 2licensed
- Richmond, VA: 2licensed
- Seattle: 1licensed
- Burnside (SA): 1licensed
Jay as a human name
This is the meaning of Jay as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Jay
Dog names about as popular as Jay
Jay FAQ
How many pets are named Jay?
In the public pet records we track, 149 pets are named Jay: 137 dogs, 12 cats. Where sex was recorded, 8% are female and 92% male. It ranks #578 among dog names and #901 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Jay?
Among dogs named Jay 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); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); 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.