Kelly
How many real pets are named Kelly, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Kelly as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 138 pets are named Kelly: 114 dogs, 24 cats. Where sex was recorded, 87% are female and 13% male. It ranks #675 among dog names and #439 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Kelly
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 15
- Yorkshire Terrier: 9
- Shih Tzu: 6
- Chihuahua: 6
- Maltese: 4
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Kelly
- New York City: 84licensed
- Austin shelter: 31shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 8shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 5licensed
- Seattle: 4licensed
- Burnside (SA): 4licensed
- Zurich: 2licensed
Kelly as a human name
This is the meaning of Kelly as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Kelly
Dog names about as popular as Kelly
Kelly FAQ
How many pets are named Kelly?
In the public pet records we track, 138 pets are named Kelly: 114 dogs, 24 cats. Where sex was recorded, 87% are female and 13% male. It ranks #675 among dog names and #439 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Kelly?
Among dogs named Kelly 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); Burnside Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); 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.