Luna
How many real pets are named Luna, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Luna as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 5,284 pets are named Luna: 4,737 dogs, 540 cats, 3 guinea pigs, 3 rabbits, 1 ferret. Where sex was recorded, 99% are female and 1% male. It ranks #2 among dog names and #1 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Luna
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 287
- Pit Bull: 247
- Shih Tzu: 225
- Chihuahua: 204
- Siberian Husky: 196
Cats
- Domestic Shorthair: 248
- Domestic Medium Hair: 28
- American Shorthair: 14
- Siamese: 13
- Domestic Longhair: 9
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 3
Rabbits
- Rabbit Sh: 3
Ferrets
- Ferret: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Luna
- New York City: 3,040licensed
- Toronto: 747licensed
- Austin shelter: 682shelter
- Seattle: 358licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 165shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 133licensed
- Zurich: 124licensed
- Richmond, VA: 31licensed
- Burnside (SA): 3licensed
- Adelaide: 1licensed
Luna as a human name
This is the meaning of Luna as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from Latin. Root meaning: “the moon”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Dog names about as popular as Luna
Luna FAQ
How many pets are named Luna?
In the public pet records we track, 5,284 pets are named Luna: 4,737 dogs, 540 cats, 3 guinea pigs, 3 rabbits, 1 ferret. Where sex was recorded, 99% are female and 1% male. It ranks #2 among dog names and #1 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Luna?
Among dogs named Luna in these records, the most common breed is Labrador Retriever.
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); 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.