Nessie
How many real pets are named Nessie, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Nessie as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 46 pets are named Nessie: 40 dogs, 6 cats. Where sex was recorded, 94% are female and 6% male. It ranks #1,712 among dog names and #1,769 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Nessie
Dogs
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Nessie
- New York City: 22licensed
- Seattle: 9licensed
- Austin shelter: 7shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 2licensed
- Burnside (SA): 2licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 2shelter
- Zurich: 1licensed
- Adelaide: 1licensed
Nessie as a human name
This is the meaning of Nessie as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the female given name Agnes.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Nessie
Dog names about as popular as Nessie
Nessie FAQ
How many pets are named Nessie?
In the public pet records we track, 46 pets are named Nessie: 40 dogs, 6 cats. Where sex was recorded, 94% are female and 6% male. It ranks #1,712 among dog names and #1,769 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Nessie?
Among dogs named Nessie 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); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Dog Registrations, City of Adelaide (CC BY 3.0 AU); Burnside Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); 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.