Mel
How many real pets are named Mel, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Mel as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 55 pets are named Mel: 46 dogs, 9 cats. Where sex was recorded, 54% are female and 46% male. It ranks #1,546 among dog names and #1,245 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Mel
Dogs
- Chihuahua: 4
- Pit Bull: 4
- Labrador Retriever: 3
- Golden Retriever: 2
- Maltese: 2
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Mel
- New York City: 29licensed
- Austin shelter: 9shelter
- Zurich: 7licensed
- Seattle: 5licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 3shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 1licensed
- Burnside (SA): 1licensed
Mel as a human name
This is the meaning of Mel as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the male given names Melchior, Melchor, Melech, Melfyn, Melhem, Melindro, Meliton, Melville, Melvin, and Melvyn.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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How many pets are named Mel?
In the public pet records we track, 55 pets are named Mel: 46 dogs, 9 cats. Where sex was recorded, 54% are female and 46% male. It ranks #1,546 among dog names and #1,245 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Mel?
Among dogs named Mel 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); 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.