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Polly

How many real pets are named Polly, which animals and breeds have it, and where.

213 real pets#457 dog name#281 cat name9 places

How popular is Polly as a pet name?

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In the public pet records we track, 213 pets are named Polly: 174 dogs, 37 cats, 2 birds. Where sex was recorded, 97% are female and 3% male. It ranks #457 among dog names and #281 among cat names.

Breeds most often named Polly

Dogs

Cats

Birds

  • Parrot: 1
  • Parakeet: 1

Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.

Where pets are named Polly

Polly as a human name

This is the meaning of Polly as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.

A female given name from Hebrew.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Names similar to Polly

Dog names about as popular as Polly

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How many pets are named Polly?

In the public pet records we track, 213 pets are named Polly: 174 dogs, 37 cats, 2 birds. Where sex was recorded, 97% are female and 3% male. It ranks #457 among dog names and #281 among cat names.

What breed is most often named Polly?

Among dogs named Polly 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); 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.