Lilly
How many real pets are named Lilly, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Lilly as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 693 pets are named Lilly: 619 dogs, 71 cats, 2 others, 1 ferret. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #124 among dog names and #125 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Lilly
Dogs
- Chihuahua: 40
- Yorkshire Terrier: 35
- Pit Bull: 33
- Labrador Retriever: 30
- Shih Tzu: 28
Cats
Others
- Californian: 1
- New Zealand Wht: 1
Ferrets
- Ferret: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Lilly
- New York City: 384licensed
- Austin shelter: 86shelter
- Toronto: 73licensed
- Seattle: 35licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 33shelter
- Zurich: 29licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 16licensed
- Burnside (SA): 15licensed
- Richmond, VA: 15licensed
- Adelaide: 4licensed
- Prospect (SA): 3licensed
Lilly as a human name
This is the meaning of Lilly as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name, variant of Lily.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Lilly
Dog names about as popular as Lilly
Lilly FAQ
How many pets are named Lilly?
In the public pet records we track, 693 pets are named Lilly: 619 dogs, 71 cats, 2 others, 1 ferret. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #124 among dog names and #125 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Lilly?
Among dogs named Lilly in these records, the most common breed is Chihuahua.
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); Dog Registrations, City of Adelaide (CC BY 3.0 AU); Burnside Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); City of Prospect 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.