Maggie
How many real pets are named Maggie, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Maggie as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 1,562 pets are named Maggie: 1,435 dogs, 126 cats, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 99% are female and 1% male. It ranks #32 among dog names and #43 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Maggie
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 119
- Pit Bull: 48
- Golden Retriever: 43
- German Shepherd: 41
- Chihuahua: 38
Cats
Others
- Californian: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Maggie
- New York City: 819licensed
- Toronto: 285licensed
- Austin shelter: 205shelter
- Seattle: 105licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 42licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 39shelter
- Burnside (SA): 37licensed
- Richmond, VA: 19licensed
- Zurich: 5licensed
- Adelaide: 3licensed
- Prospect (SA): 3licensed
Maggie as a human name
This is the meaning of Maggie as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the female given name Margaret.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Maggie
Dog names about as popular as Maggie
Maggie FAQ
How many pets are named Maggie?
In the public pet records we track, 1,562 pets are named Maggie: 1,435 dogs, 126 cats, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 99% are female and 1% male. It ranks #32 among dog names and #43 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Maggie?
Among dogs named Maggie 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); 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.