Ray
How many real pets are named Ray, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Ray as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 96 pets are named Ray: 86 dogs, 9 cats, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 17% are female and 83% male. It ranks #893 among dog names and #1,211 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Ray
Dogs
Cats
Others
- Macaw: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Ray
- New York City: 61licensed
- Austin shelter: 19shelter
- Seattle: 6licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 4licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 4shelter
- Zurich: 2licensed
Ray as a human name
This is the meaning of Ray as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the male given names Raymond, Rayane, and Rayan, also used as a formal given name. Root meaning: “king”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Ray
Dog names about as popular as Ray
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How many pets are named Ray?
In the public pet records we track, 96 pets are named Ray: 86 dogs, 9 cats, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 17% are female and 83% male. It ranks #893 among dog names and #1,211 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Ray?
Among dogs named Ray 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); 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.