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Lily

How many real pets are named Lily, which animals and breeds have it, and where.

1,817 real pets#26 dog name#8 cat name11 places

How popular is Lily as a pet name?

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In the public pet records we track, 1,817 pets are named Lily: 1,570 dogs, 247 cats. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #26 among dog names and #8 among cat names.

Breeds most often named Lily

Dogs

Cats

Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.

Where pets are named Lily

Lily as a human name

This is the meaning of Lily as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.

A female given name from English, popular around 1900 and currently returning to favor.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Names similar to Lily

Dog names about as popular as Lily

Lily FAQ

How many pets are named Lily?

In the public pet records we track, 1,817 pets are named Lily: 1,570 dogs, 247 cats. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #26 among dog names and #8 among cat names.

What breed is most often named Lily?

Among dogs named Lily 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.