Kai
How many real pets are named Kai, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Kai as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 352 pets are named Kai: 329 dogs, 23 cats. Where sex was recorded, 17% are female and 83% male. It ranks #222 among dog names and #454 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Kai
Dogs
- German Shepherd: 22
- Labrador Retriever: 21
- Siberian Husky: 20
- Yorkshire Terrier: 14
- Shiba Inu: 12
Cats
- Domestic Shorthair: 17
- Domestic Medium Hair: 4
- Siamese: 1
- Bengal: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Kai
- New York City: 202licensed
- Toronto: 46licensed
- Seattle: 37licensed
- Austin shelter: 35shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 15shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 10licensed
- Richmond, VA: 5licensed
- Zurich: 2licensed
Kai as a human name
This is the meaning of Kai as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A unisex given name from the Germanic languages, of modern usage. Root meaning: “sea”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Kai
Dog names about as popular as Kai
Kai FAQ
How many pets are named Kai?
In the public pet records we track, 352 pets are named Kai: 329 dogs, 23 cats. Where sex was recorded, 17% are female and 83% male. It ranks #222 among dog names and #454 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Kai?
Among dogs named Kai in these records, the most common breed is German Shepherd.
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); 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.