Joy
How many real pets are named Joy, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Joy as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 238 pets are named Joy: 216 dogs, 20 cats, 1 guinea pig, 1 rabbit. Where sex was recorded, 75% are female and 25% male. It ranks #365 among dog names and #522 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Joy
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 19
- Shih Tzu: 19
- Yorkshire Terrier: 13
- Chihuahua: 10
- Poodle: 8
Cats
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 1
Rabbits
- Rabbit Lh: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Joy
- New York City: 142licensed
- Austin shelter: 52shelter
- Zurich: 19licensed
- Seattle: 12licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 7shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 3licensed
- Richmond, VA: 3licensed
Joy as a human name
This is the meaning of Joy as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from English.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Joy
Dog names about as popular as Joy
Joy FAQ
How many pets are named Joy?
In the public pet records we track, 238 pets are named Joy: 216 dogs, 20 cats, 1 guinea pig, 1 rabbit. Where sex was recorded, 75% are female and 25% male. It ranks #365 among dog names and #522 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Joy?
Among dogs named Joy 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); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); 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.