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Merle

How many real pets are named Merle, which animals and breeds have it, and where.

36 real pets#2,185 dog name#2,064 cat name5 places

How popular is Merle as a pet name?

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In the public pet records we track, 36 pets are named Merle: 30 dogs, 5 cats, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 14% are female and 86% male. It ranks #2,185 among dog names and #2,064 among cat names.

Breeds most often named Merle

Dogs

Cats

Others

  • Raccoon: 1

Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.

Where pets are named Merle

Merle as a human name

This is the meaning of Merle as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.

A male given name transferred from the surname.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Names similar to Merle

Dog names about as popular as Merle

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How many pets are named Merle?

In the public pet records we track, 36 pets are named Merle: 30 dogs, 5 cats, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 14% are female and 86% male. It ranks #2,185 among dog names and #2,064 among cat names.

What breed is most often named Merle?

Among dogs named Merle in these records, the most common breed is Rat Terrier.

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.