Missy
How many real pets are named Missy, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Missy as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 627 pets are named Missy: 525 dogs, 101 cats, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #143 among dog names and #64 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Missy
Dogs
- Yorkshire Terrier: 43
- Pit Bull: 38
- Chihuahua: 36
- Shih Tzu: 32
- Labrador Retriever: 29
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 Missy
- New York City: 328licensed
- Austin shelter: 91shelter
- Toronto: 88licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 48shelter
- Seattle: 33licensed
- Burnside (SA): 15licensed
- Richmond, VA: 9licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 7licensed
- Prospect (SA): 5licensed
- Adelaide: 3licensed
Missy as a human name
This is the meaning of Missy as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the female given name Melissa.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Missy
Dog names about as popular as Missy
Missy FAQ
How many pets are named Missy?
In the public pet records we track, 627 pets are named Missy: 525 dogs, 101 cats, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #143 among dog names and #64 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Missy?
Among dogs named Missy 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); 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.