Peggy
How many real pets are named Peggy, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Peggy as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 118 pets are named Peggy: 105 dogs, 12 cats, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 96% are female and 4% male. It ranks #733 among dog names and #907 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Peggy
Dogs
- Chihuahua: 9
- Pit Bull: 5
- Labrador Retriever: 4
- Shih Tzu: 4
- Pug: 3
Cats
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Peggy
- New York City: 79licensed
- Austin shelter: 19shelter
- Zurich: 7licensed
- Seattle: 5licensed
- Burnside (SA): 3licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 3shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 1licensed
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
Peggy as a human name
This is the meaning of Peggy as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the female given name Margaret, also used as a formal given name.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Dog names about as popular as Peggy
Peggy FAQ
How many pets are named Peggy?
In the public pet records we track, 118 pets are named Peggy: 105 dogs, 12 cats, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 96% are female and 4% male. It ranks #733 among dog names and #907 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Peggy?
Among dogs named Peggy in these records, the most common breed is Chihuahua.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); Dogs of Cambridge (ODC PDDL); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); 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.