Molly
How many real pets are named Molly, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Molly as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 2,040 pets are named Molly: 1,844 dogs, 193 cats, 2 guinea pigs, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 99% are female and 1% male. It ranks #17 among dog names and #17 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Molly
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 138
- Maltese: 71
- Shih Tzu: 70
- Pit Bull: 70
- Chihuahua: 57
Cats
Others
- Hotot: 1
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 2
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Molly
- New York City: 1,044licensed
- Toronto: 394licensed
- Austin shelter: 257shelter
- Burnside (SA): 93licensed
- Seattle: 83licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 69shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 29licensed
- Richmond, VA: 29licensed
- Zurich: 18licensed
- Adelaide: 12licensed
- Prospect (SA): 12licensed
Molly as a human name
This is the meaning of Molly as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from Hebrew.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Molly
Dog names about as popular as Molly
Molly FAQ
How many pets are named Molly?
In the public pet records we track, 2,040 pets are named Molly: 1,844 dogs, 193 cats, 2 guinea pigs, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 99% are female and 1% male. It ranks #17 among dog names and #17 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Molly?
Among dogs named Molly 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); 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.