Piper
How many real pets are named Piper, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Piper as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 792 pets are named Piper: 705 dogs, 85 cats, 1 goat, 1 rabbit. Where sex was recorded, 93% are female and 7% male. It ranks #96 among dog names and #88 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Piper
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 63
- Chihuahua: 25
- Pit Bull: 18
- Shih Tzu: 15
- Golden Retriever: 14
Cats
Goats
- Miniature: 1
Rabbits
- Rabbit Sh: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Piper
- New York City: 378licensed
- Toronto: 163licensed
- Austin shelter: 117shelter
- Seattle: 70licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 37licensed
- Richmond, VA: 9licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 9shelter
- Zurich: 5licensed
- Burnside (SA): 3licensed
- Adelaide: 1licensed
Piper as a human name
This is the meaning of Piper as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name transferred from the surname, used since the mid-twentieth century, first by the American actress Piper Laurie.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Piper
Dog names about as popular as Piper
Piper FAQ
How many pets are named Piper?
In the public pet records we track, 792 pets are named Piper: 705 dogs, 85 cats, 1 goat, 1 rabbit. Where sex was recorded, 93% are female and 7% male. It ranks #96 among dog names and #88 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Piper?
Among dogs named Piper 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.