Lou
How many real pets are named Lou, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Lou as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 188 pets are named Lou: 176 dogs, 12 cats. Where sex was recorded, 34% are female and 66% male. It ranks #451 among dog names and #895 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Lou
Dogs
- Chihuahua: 17
- Labrador Retriever: 10
- Pit Bull: 9
- Terrier: 8
- German Shepherd: 5
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Lou
- New York City: 123licensed
- Austin shelter: 23shelter
- Zurich: 18licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 8shelter
- Seattle: 6licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 5licensed
- Richmond, VA: 3licensed
- Adelaide: 2licensed
Lou as a human name
This is the meaning of Lou as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A unisex given name.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Lou
Dog names about as popular as Lou
Lou FAQ
How many pets are named Lou?
In the public pet records we track, 188 pets are named Lou: 176 dogs, 12 cats. Where sex was recorded, 34% are female and 66% male. It ranks #451 among dog names and #895 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Lou?
Among dogs named Lou 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); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Dog Registrations, City of Adelaide (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.