Luca
How many real pets are named Luca, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Luca as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 389 pets are named Luca: 372 dogs, 16 cats, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 7% are female and 93% male. It ranks #196 among dog names and #658 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Luca
Dogs
- Chihuahua: 22
- Labrador Retriever: 19
- Poodle: 17
- Yorkshire Terrier: 17
- Maltese: 15
Cats
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Luca
- New York City: 310licensed
- Seattle: 33licensed
- Austin shelter: 24shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 9shelter
- Zurich: 6licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 4licensed
- Richmond, VA: 2licensed
- Burnside (SA): 1licensed
Luca as a human name
This is the meaning of Luca as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Italian, borrowed in the 2000s.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Luca
Dog names about as popular as Luca
Luca FAQ
How many pets are named Luca?
In the public pet records we track, 389 pets are named Luca: 372 dogs, 16 cats, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 7% are female and 93% male. It ranks #196 among dog names and #658 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Luca?
Among dogs named Luca 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); 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.