Misty
How many real pets are named Misty, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Misty as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 345 pets are named Misty: 244 dogs, 101 cats. Where sex was recorded, 98% are female and 2% male. It ranks #325 among dog names and #65 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Misty
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 20
- Yorkshire Terrier: 17
- Labrador Retriever: 15
- Shih Tzu: 15
- Chihuahua: 13
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Misty
- New York City: 169licensed
- Austin shelter: 70shelter
- Toronto: 50licensed
- Seattle: 19licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 13shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 11licensed
- Burnside (SA): 7licensed
- Prospect (SA): 4licensed
- Zurich: 1licensed
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
Misty as a human name
This is the meaning of Misty as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from English, reasonably popular in the 1970s and the 1980s.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Misty
Dog names about as popular as Misty
Misty FAQ
How many pets are named Misty?
In the public pet records we track, 345 pets are named Misty: 244 dogs, 101 cats. Where sex was recorded, 98% are female and 2% male. It ranks #325 among dog names and #65 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Misty?
Among dogs named Misty in these records, the most common breed is Pit Bull.
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); 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.