Nova
How many real pets are named Nova, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Nova as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 713 pets are named Nova: 637 dogs, 74 cats, 2 guinea pigs. Where sex was recorded, 89% are female and 11% male. It ranks #114 among dog names and #119 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Nova
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 77
- Labrador Retriever: 42
- German Shepherd: 31
- Siberian Husky: 24
- Shih Tzu: 19
Cats
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 2
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Nova
- New York City: 399licensed
- Austin shelter: 113shelter
- Toronto: 94licensed
- Seattle: 64licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 19shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 18licensed
- Zurich: 5licensed
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
Nova as a human name
This is the meaning of Nova as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from Latin. Root meaning: “new”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Dog names about as popular as Nova
Nova FAQ
How many pets are named Nova?
In the public pet records we track, 713 pets are named Nova: 637 dogs, 74 cats, 2 guinea pigs. Where sex was recorded, 89% are female and 11% male. It ranks #114 among dog names and #119 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Nova?
Among dogs named Nova 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); Licensed Dog and Cat Names, City of Toronto (Open Government Licence – Toronto); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); 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.