Pluto
How many real pets are named Pluto, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Pluto as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 276 pets are named Pluto: 252 dogs, 24 cats. Where sex was recorded, 8% are female and 92% male. It ranks #314 among dog names and #431 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Pluto
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 16
- Shih Tzu: 12
- Poodle: 12
- Chihuahua: 12
- Maltese: 11
Cats
- Domestic Shorthair: 21
- American Shorthair: 1
- Siamese: 1
- Himalayan: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Pluto
- New York City: 155licensed
- Toronto: 40licensed
- Austin shelter: 37shelter
- Seattle: 14licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 9licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 9shelter
- Zurich: 4licensed
- Richmond, VA: 4licensed
- Burnside (SA): 3licensed
- Adelaide: 1licensed
Names similar to Pluto
Dog names about as popular as Pluto
Pluto FAQ
How many pets are named Pluto?
In the public pet records we track, 276 pets are named Pluto: 252 dogs, 24 cats. Where sex was recorded, 8% are female and 92% male. It ranks #314 among dog names and #431 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Pluto?
Among dogs named Pluto 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.