Matilda
How many real pets are named Matilda, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Matilda as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 222 pets are named Matilda: 193 dogs, 28 cats, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 99% are female and 1% male. It ranks #415 among dog names and #372 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Matilda
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Cats
Others
- Rex: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Matilda
- New York City: 130licensed
- Austin shelter: 38shelter
- Seattle: 19licensed
- Burnside (SA): 14licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 7shelter
- Richmond, VA: 4licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 3licensed
- Zurich: 3licensed
- Adelaide: 2licensed
- Prospect (SA): 2licensed
Matilda as a human name
This is the meaning of Matilda as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from the Germanic languages. Root meaning: “Matilda”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Matilda
Dog names about as popular as Matilda
Matilda FAQ
How many pets are named Matilda?
In the public pet records we track, 222 pets are named Matilda: 193 dogs, 28 cats, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 99% are female and 1% male. It ranks #415 among dog names and #372 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Matilda?
Among dogs named Matilda 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); 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.