Merlin
How many real pets are named Merlin, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Merlin as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 198 pets are named Merlin: 142 dogs, 55 cats, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 4% are female and 96% male. It ranks #555 among dog names and #198 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Merlin
Dogs
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 Merlin
- New York City: 76licensed
- Austin shelter: 43shelter
- Seattle: 32licensed
- Toronto: 15licensed
- Zurich: 12licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 9licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 4shelter
- Adelaide: 2licensed
- Burnside (SA): 2licensed
- Prospect (SA): 2licensed
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
Merlin as a human name
This is the meaning of Merlin as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name. Root meaning: “sea”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Merlin
Dog names about as popular as Merlin
Merlin FAQ
How many pets are named Merlin?
In the public pet records we track, 198 pets are named Merlin: 142 dogs, 55 cats, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 4% are female and 96% male. It ranks #555 among dog names and #198 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Merlin?
Among dogs named Merlin in these records, the most common breed is Labrador Retriever.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); Dogs of Cambridge (ODC PDDL); Licensed Dog and Cat Names, City of Toronto (Open Government Licence – Toronto); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Dog Registrations, City of Adelaide (CC BY 3.0 AU); Burnside Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); City of Prospect Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); 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.