Opal
How many real pets are named Opal, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Opal as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 147 pets are named Opal: 106 dogs, 41 cats. Where sex was recorded, 97% are female and 3% male. It ranks #728 among dog names and #260 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Opal
Dogs
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Opal
- New York City: 65licensed
- Austin shelter: 44shelter
- Seattle: 28licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 6shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 4licensed
Opal as a human name
This is the meaning of Opal as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A unisex given name from English from the precious stone, invented in the nineteenth century.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Dog names about as popular as Opal
Opal FAQ
How many pets are named Opal?
In the public pet records we track, 147 pets are named Opal: 106 dogs, 41 cats. Where sex was recorded, 97% are female and 3% male. It ranks #728 among dog names and #260 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Opal?
Among dogs named Opal 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); 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.