Precious
How many real pets are named Precious, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Precious as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 399 pets are named Precious: 344 dogs, 53 cats, 1 chicken, 1 bird. Where sex was recorded, 97% are female and 3% male. It ranks #210 among dog names and #202 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Precious
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 55
- Chihuahua: 42
- Shih Tzu: 39
- Yorkshire Terrier: 29
- Pomeranian: 16
Cats
Chickens
- Chicken: 1
Birds
- Quaker: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Precious
- New York City: 247licensed
- Austin shelter: 104shelter
- Toronto: 20licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 16shelter
- Seattle: 5licensed
- Richmond, VA: 5licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 2licensed
Precious as a human name
This is the meaning of Precious as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from English.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Precious
Dog names about as popular as Precious
Precious FAQ
How many pets are named Precious?
In the public pet records we track, 399 pets are named Precious: 344 dogs, 53 cats, 1 chicken, 1 bird. Where sex was recorded, 97% are female and 3% male. It ranks #210 among dog names and #202 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Precious?
Among dogs named Precious in these records, the most common breed is Pit Bull.
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); 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.