Michael
How many real pets are named Michael, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Michael as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 87 pets are named Michael: 65 dogs, 21 cats, 1 rabbit. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #1,134 among dog names and #512 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Michael
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 6
- Chihuahua: 5
- Pit Bull: 5
- German Shepherd: 3
- Shih Tzu: 3
Cats
Rabbits
- Rabbit Sh: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Michael
- New York City: 55licensed
- Austin shelter: 18shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 10shelter
- Seattle: 3licensed
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
Michael as a human name
This is the meaning of Michael as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Hebrew.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Dog names about as popular as Michael
Michael FAQ
How many pets are named Michael?
In the public pet records we track, 87 pets are named Michael: 65 dogs, 21 cats, 1 rabbit. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #1,134 among dog names and #512 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Michael?
Among dogs named Michael 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); 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.