Penelope
How many real pets are named Penelope, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Penelope as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 569 pets are named Penelope: 464 dogs, 103 cats, 1 rabbit, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #155 among dog names and #60 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Penelope
Dogs
- Chihuahua: 28
- Labrador Retriever: 26
- Shih Tzu: 22
- Pit Bull: 22
- Yorkshire Terrier: 21
Cats
- Domestic Shorthair: 49
- Domestic Medium Hair: 13
- Domestic Longhair: 4
- American Shorthair: 1
- Japanese Bobtail: 1
Rabbits
- Rabbit Sh: 1
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Penelope
- New York City: 364licensed
- Austin shelter: 95shelter
- Seattle: 46licensed
- Toronto: 31licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 17shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 10licensed
- Richmond, VA: 3licensed
- Zurich: 2licensed
- Burnside (SA): 1licensed
Penelope as a human name
This is the meaning of Penelope as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Penelope
Dog names about as popular as Penelope
Penelope FAQ
How many pets are named Penelope?
In the public pet records we track, 569 pets are named Penelope: 464 dogs, 103 cats, 1 rabbit, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #155 among dog names and #60 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Penelope?
Among dogs named Penelope 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); Licensed Dog and Cat Names, City of Toronto (Open Government Licence – Toronto); 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.