Marvin
How many real pets are named Marvin, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Marvin as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 118 pets are named Marvin: 94 dogs, 23 cats, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #818 among dog names and #463 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Marvin
Dogs
- Chihuahua: 9
- Labrador Retriever: 5
- Boxer: 4
- French Bulldog: 4
- Terrier: 4
Cats
- Domestic Shorthair: 17
- Domestic Medium Hair: 2
- American Curl: 1
- American Shorthair: 1
- Domestic Longhair: 1
Others
- Peafowl: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Marvin
- New York City: 71licensed
- Austin shelter: 27shelter
- Seattle: 10licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 5licensed
- Zurich: 2licensed
- Burnside (SA): 1licensed
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 1shelter
Marvin as a human name
This is the meaning of Marvin as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Welsh. Root meaning: “Mervyn”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Marvin
Dog names about as popular as Marvin
Marvin FAQ
How many pets are named Marvin?
In the public pet records we track, 118 pets are named Marvin: 94 dogs, 23 cats, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #818 among dog names and #463 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Marvin?
Among dogs named Marvin 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.