Laika
How many real pets are named Laika, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Laika as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 131 pets are named Laika: 130 dogs, 1 cat. Where sex was recorded, 95% are female and 5% male. It ranks #598 among dog names and #5,524 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Laika
Dogs
- German Shepherd: 14
- Labrador Retriever: 12
- Siberian Husky: 9
- Beagle: 6
- Border Collie: 5
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Laika
- New York City: 84licensed
- Seattle: 16licensed
- Austin shelter: 13shelter
- Zurich: 9licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 8licensed
- Burnside (SA): 1licensed
Names similar to Laika
Dog names about as popular as Laika
Laika FAQ
How many pets are named Laika?
In the public pet records we track, 131 pets are named Laika: 130 dogs, 1 cat. Where sex was recorded, 95% are female and 5% male. It ranks #598 among dog names and #5,524 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Laika?
Among dogs named Laika 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); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Burnside Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); 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.