Percy
How many real pets are named Percy, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Percy as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 256 pets are named Percy: 194 dogs, 61 cats, 1 rabbit. Where sex was recorded, 11% are female and 89% male. It ranks #412 among dog names and #163 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Percy
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 12
- Beagle: 11
- Chihuahua: 9
- German Shepherd: 9
- Toy Poodle: 7
Cats
Rabbits
- Rabbit Sh: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Percy
- New York City: 135licensed
- Austin shelter: 58shelter
- Seattle: 30licensed
- Toronto: 18licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 5shelter
- Burnside (SA): 4licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 3licensed
- Richmond, VA: 2licensed
- Adelaide: 1licensed
Percy as a human name
This is the meaning of Percy as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name transferred from the surname or from a clipping of Percival, of Middle Ages and later usage. Root meaning: “a baronial surname”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Dog names about as popular as Percy
Percy FAQ
How many pets are named Percy?
In the public pet records we track, 256 pets are named Percy: 194 dogs, 61 cats, 1 rabbit. Where sex was recorded, 11% are female and 89% male. It ranks #412 among dog names and #163 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Percy?
Among dogs named Percy 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); 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.