Mei
How many real pets are named Mei, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Mei as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 59 pets are named Mei: 52 dogs, 7 cats. Where sex was recorded, 96% are female and 4% male. It ranks #1,386 among dog names and #1,513 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Mei
Dogs
- Shih Tzu: 7
- Shiba Inu: 3
- Maltese: 3
- Siberian Husky: 2
- Yorkshire Terrier: 2
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Mei
- New York City: 47licensed
- Seattle: 6licensed
- Austin shelter: 4shelter
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 1shelter
Mei as a human name
This is the meaning of Mei as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from Mandarin.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Dog names about as popular as Mei
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How many pets are named Mei?
In the public pet records we track, 59 pets are named Mei: 52 dogs, 7 cats. Where sex was recorded, 96% are female and 4% male. It ranks #1,386 among dog names and #1,513 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Mei?
Among dogs named Mei in these records, the most common breed is Shih Tzu.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); 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.