Nell
How many real pets are named Nell, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Nell as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 29 pets are named Nell: 26 dogs, 3 cats. Where sex was recorded, 96% are female and 4% male. It ranks #2,436 among dog names and #3,018 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Nell
Dogs
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Nell
- New York City: 17licensed
- Austin shelter: 6shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 3licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 2shelter
- Seattle: 1licensed
Nell as a human name
This is the meaning of Nell as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the female given names Eleanor, Ellen, and Helen
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Nell
Dog names about as popular as Nell
Nell FAQ
How many pets are named Nell?
In the public pet records we track, 29 pets are named Nell: 26 dogs, 3 cats. Where sex was recorded, 96% are female and 4% male. It ranks #2,436 among dog names and #3,018 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Nell?
Among dogs named Nell 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); 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.