Nigel
How many real pets are named Nigel, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Nigel as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 100 pets are named Nigel: 81 dogs, 19 cats. Where sex was recorded, 0% are female and 100% male. It ranks #945 among dog names and #560 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Nigel
Dogs
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Nigel
- New York City: 51licensed
- Austin shelter: 27shelter
- Seattle: 14licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 3licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 3shelter
- Burnside (SA): 1licensed
- Prospect (SA): 1licensed
Nigel as a human name
This is the meaning of Nigel as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Latin, of mostly British usage. Root meaning: “slightly black”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Nigel
Dog names about as popular as Nigel
Nigel FAQ
How many pets are named Nigel?
In the public pet records we track, 100 pets are named Nigel: 81 dogs, 19 cats. Where sex was recorded, 0% are female and 100% male. It ranks #945 among dog names and #560 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Nigel?
Among dogs named Nigel in these records, the most common breed is Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); Dogs of Cambridge (ODC PDDL); Burnside Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); City of Prospect 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.