Ralph
How many real pets are named Ralph, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Ralph as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 226 pets are named Ralph: 207 dogs, 18 cats, 1 rabbit. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #379 among dog names and #586 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Ralph
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 12
- Poodle: 10
- Chihuahua: 10
- Shih Tzu: 9
- Maltese: 8
Cats
Rabbits
- Rabbit Sh: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Ralph
- New York City: 137licensed
- Austin shelter: 36shelter
- Burnside (SA): 20licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 11shelter
- Seattle: 7licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 7licensed
- Adelaide: 4licensed
- Prospect (SA): 4licensed
Ralph as a human name
This is the meaning of Ralph as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from the Germanic languages.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Ralph
Dog names about as popular as Ralph
Ralph FAQ
How many pets are named Ralph?
In the public pet records we track, 226 pets are named Ralph: 207 dogs, 18 cats, 1 rabbit. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #379 among dog names and #586 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Ralph?
Among dogs named Ralph 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); Dog Registrations, City of Adelaide (CC BY 3.0 AU); Burnside Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); City of Prospect Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); 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.