Kitty
How many real pets are named Kitty, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Kitty as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 245 pets are named Kitty: 176 cats, 69 dogs. Where sex was recorded, 84% are female and 16% male. It ranks #1,087 among dog names and #20 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Kitty
Dogs
- Chihuahua: 10
- Pit Bull: 10
- Maltese: 4
- Great Pyrenees: 3
- German Shepherd: 3
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Kitty
- Austin shelter: 106shelter
- Toronto: 55licensed
- New York City: 42licensed
- Seattle: 21licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 17shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 2licensed
- Burnside (SA): 1licensed
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
Kitty as a human name
This is the meaning of Kitty as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the female given name Katherine or related names.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Kitty
Cat names about as popular as Kitty
Kitty FAQ
How many pets are named Kitty?
In the public pet records we track, 245 pets are named Kitty: 176 cats, 69 dogs. Where sex was recorded, 84% are female and 16% male. It ranks #1,087 among dog names and #20 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Kitty?
Among cats named Kitty in these records, the most common breed is Domestic Shorthair.
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); 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.