May
How many real pets are named May, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is May as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 99 pets are named May: 83 dogs, 16 cats. Where sex was recorded, 91% are female and 9% male. It ranks #921 among dog names and #684 among cat names.
Breeds most often named May
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 11
- Pit Bull: 6
- Chihuahua: 6
- Terrier: 3
- Beagle: 3
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named May
- New York City: 61licensed
- Austin shelter: 25shelter
- Seattle: 5licensed
- Zurich: 3licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 2licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 2shelter
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
May as a human name
This is the meaning of May as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name, usually pet name for Mary and Margaret, reinforced by the month and plant meaning. Root meaning: “Maia's month”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to May
Dog names about as popular as May
May FAQ
How many pets are named May?
In the public pet records we track, 99 pets are named May: 83 dogs, 16 cats. Where sex was recorded, 91% are female and 9% male. It ranks #921 among dog names and #684 among cat names.
What breed is most often named May?
Among dogs named May 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); 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.