Meg
How many real pets are named Meg, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Meg as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 53 pets are named Meg: 35 dogs, 17 cats, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #1,921 among dog names and #647 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Meg
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 5
- Chihuahua: 3
- Rat Terrier: 2
- Cairn Terrier: 2
- Labrador Retriever: 2
Cats
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Meg
- Austin shelter: 27shelter
- New York City: 13licensed
- Burnside (SA): 6licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 5shelter
- Seattle: 1licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 1licensed
Meg as a human name
This is the meaning of Meg as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the female given names Margaret and Megan.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Meg
Dog names about as popular as Meg
Meg FAQ
How many pets are named Meg?
In the public pet records we track, 53 pets are named Meg: 35 dogs, 17 cats, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #1,921 among dog names and #647 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Meg?
Among dogs named Meg in these records, the most common breed is Pit Bull.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); Dogs of Cambridge (ODC PDDL); Burnside Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); 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.