Olive
How many real pets are named Olive, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Olive as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 1,052 pets are named Olive: 935 dogs, 113 cats, 3 guinea pigs, 1 hamster. Where sex was recorded, 96% are female and 4% male. It ranks #63 among dog names and #55 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Olive
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 74
- Chihuahua: 42
- Pit Bull: 32
- Dachshund: 28
- French Bulldog: 22
Cats
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 3
Hamsters
- Hamster: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Olive
- New York City: 613licensed
- Toronto: 117licensed
- Austin shelter: 116shelter
- Seattle: 111licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 54licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 21shelter
- Richmond, VA: 8licensed
- Zurich: 7licensed
- Burnside (SA): 4licensed
- Adelaide: 1licensed
Olive as a human name
This is the meaning of Olive as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from English.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Olive
Dog names about as popular as Olive
Olive FAQ
How many pets are named Olive?
In the public pet records we track, 1,052 pets are named Olive: 935 dogs, 113 cats, 3 guinea pigs, 1 hamster. Where sex was recorded, 96% are female and 4% male. It ranks #63 among dog names and #55 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Olive?
Among dogs named Olive 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); Licensed Dog and Cat Names, City of Toronto (Open Government Licence – Toronto); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Dog Registrations, City of Adelaide (CC BY 3.0 AU); 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.