Melvin
How many real pets are named Melvin, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Melvin as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 39 pets are named Melvin: 32 dogs, 7 cats. Where sex was recorded, 0% are female and 100% male. It ranks #2,066 among dog names and #1,558 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Melvin
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 3
- Chihuahua: 2
- Terrier: 2
- Miniature Pinscher: 2
- Beagle: 2
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Melvin
- New York City: 19licensed
- Austin shelter: 13shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 5shelter
- Seattle: 2licensed
Melvin as a human name
This is the meaning of Melvin as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name transferred from the surname. Root meaning: “bad”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Melvin
Dog names about as popular as Melvin
Melvin FAQ
How many pets are named Melvin?
In the public pet records we track, 39 pets are named Melvin: 32 dogs, 7 cats. Where sex was recorded, 0% are female and 100% male. It ranks #2,066 among dog names and #1,558 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Melvin?
Among dogs named Melvin 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); 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.