Mia
How many real pets are named Mia, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Mia as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 1,723 pets are named Mia: 1,567 dogs, 155 cats, 1 rabbit. Where sex was recorded, 99% are female and 1% male. It ranks #27 among dog names and #26 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Mia
Dogs
- Yorkshire Terrier: 147
- Shih Tzu: 128
- Chihuahua: 110
- Labrador Retriever: 71
- Maltese: 65
Cats
Rabbits
- Rabbit Sh: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Mia
- New York City: 1,126licensed
- Austin shelter: 222shelter
- Toronto: 174licensed
- Seattle: 64licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 46shelter
- Zurich: 42licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 27licensed
- Burnside (SA): 10licensed
- Prospect (SA): 5licensed
- Richmond, VA: 5licensed
- Adelaide: 2licensed
Mia as a human name
This is the meaning of Mia as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, or Danish.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Mia
Dog names about as popular as Mia
Mia FAQ
How many pets are named Mia?
In the public pet records we track, 1,723 pets are named Mia: 1,567 dogs, 155 cats, 1 rabbit. Where sex was recorded, 99% are female and 1% male. It ranks #27 among dog names and #26 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Mia?
Among dogs named Mia in these records, the most common breed is Yorkshire Terrier.
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.