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Nellie

How many real pets are named Nellie, which animals and breeds have it, and where.

240 real pets#355 dog name#892 cat name8 places

How popular is Nellie as a pet name?

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In the public pet records we track, 240 pets are named Nellie: 225 dogs, 12 cats, 1 other, 1 pig, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #355 among dog names and #892 among cat names.

Breeds most often named Nellie

Dogs

Cats

Pigs

  • Pig: 1

Guinea Pigs

  • Guinea Pig: 1

Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.

Where pets are named Nellie

Nellie as a human name

This is the meaning of Nellie as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.

A diminutive of the female given names Eleanor, Ellen, Helen, and Chanel; popular as a formal given name at the turn of the 20th century.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Names similar to Nellie

Dog names about as popular as Nellie

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How many pets are named Nellie?

In the public pet records we track, 240 pets are named Nellie: 225 dogs, 12 cats, 1 other, 1 pig, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #355 among dog names and #892 among cat names.

What breed is most often named Nellie?

Among dogs named Nellie 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.