Pearl
How many real pets are named Pearl, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Pearl as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 405 pets are named Pearl: 314 dogs, 88 cats, 1 chicken, 1 rabbit, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #242 among dog names and #84 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Pearl
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 25
- Chihuahua: 24
- Pit Bull: 23
- Maltese: 12
- Terrier: 10
Cats
Chickens
- Chicken: 1
Rabbits
- Rabbit Sh: 1
Others
- Lop-Mini: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Pearl
- New York City: 175licensed
- Austin shelter: 112shelter
- Seattle: 47licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 26shelter
- Toronto: 19licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 12licensed
- Richmond, VA: 7licensed
- Zurich: 4licensed
- Adelaide: 2licensed
- Burnside (SA): 1licensed
Pearl as a human name
This is the meaning of Pearl as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A unisex given name from English. Root meaning: “pearl water”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Pearl
Dog names about as popular as Pearl
Pearl FAQ
How many pets are named Pearl?
In the public pet records we track, 405 pets are named Pearl: 314 dogs, 88 cats, 1 chicken, 1 rabbit, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #242 among dog names and #84 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Pearl?
Among dogs named Pearl 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.