Penny
How many real pets are named Penny, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Penny as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 1,963 pets are named Penny: 1,830 dogs, 127 cats, 3 guinea pigs, 1 pig, 1 other, 1 rabbit. Where sex was recorded, 99% are female and 1% male. It ranks #18 among dog names and #42 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Penny
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 124
- Chihuahua: 124
- Pit Bull: 60
- Shih Tzu: 53
- Poodle: 51
Cats
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 3
Pigs
- Pig: 1
Others
- Sheep: 1
Rabbits
- Rabbit Sh: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Penny
- New York City: 1,225licensed
- Toronto: 234licensed
- Austin shelter: 205shelter
- Seattle: 149licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 51licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 50shelter
- Richmond, VA: 24licensed
- Burnside (SA): 13licensed
- Zurich: 10licensed
- Prospect (SA): 2licensed
Penny as a human name
This is the meaning of Penny as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the female given name Penelope.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Penny
Dog names about as popular as Penny
Penny FAQ
How many pets are named Penny?
In the public pet records we track, 1,963 pets are named Penny: 1,830 dogs, 127 cats, 3 guinea pigs, 1 pig, 1 other, 1 rabbit. Where sex was recorded, 99% are female and 1% male. It ranks #18 among dog names and #42 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Penny?
Among dogs named Penny 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); Burnside Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); City of Prospect 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.