Miles
How many real pets are named Miles, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Miles as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 280 pets are named Miles: 253 dogs, 27 cats. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #312 among dog names and #387 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Miles
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 21
- Yorkshire Terrier: 13
- German Shepherd: 9
- Chihuahua: 9
- Shih Tzu: 8
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Miles
- New York City: 194licensed
- Austin shelter: 38shelter
- Seattle: 27licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 6licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 6shelter
- Richmond, VA: 4licensed
- Zurich: 3licensed
- Burnside (SA): 2licensed
Miles as a human name
This is the meaning of Miles as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from an uncertain origin. Root meaning: “soldier”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Miles
Dog names about as popular as Miles
Miles FAQ
How many pets are named Miles?
In the public pet records we track, 280 pets are named Miles: 253 dogs, 27 cats. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #312 among dog names and #387 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Miles?
Among dogs named Miles 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); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Burnside 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.