Kirby
How many real pets are named Kirby, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Kirby as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 174 pets are named Kirby: 156 dogs, 18 cats. Where sex was recorded, 21% are female and 79% male. It ranks #507 among dog names and #589 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Kirby
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 12
- Pit Bull: 7
- Chihuahua: 6
- Yorkshire Terrier: 5
- Maltese: 5
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Kirby
- New York City: 108licensed
- Austin shelter: 34shelter
- Seattle: 20licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 6licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 3shelter
- Burnside (SA): 2licensed
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
Kirby as a human name
This is the meaning of Kirby as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A unisex given name transferred from the surname. Root meaning: “church”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Kirby
Dog names about as popular as Kirby
Kirby FAQ
How many pets are named Kirby?
In the public pet records we track, 174 pets are named Kirby: 156 dogs, 18 cats. Where sex was recorded, 21% are female and 79% male. It ranks #507 among dog names and #589 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Kirby?
Among dogs named Kirby 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); 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.