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Riley

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

1,324 real pets#36 dog name#158 cat name10 places

How popular is Riley as a pet name?

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In the public pet records we track, 1,324 pets are named Riley: 1,263 dogs, 61 cats. Where sex was recorded, 50% are female and 50% male. It ranks #36 among dog names and #158 among cat names.

Breeds most often named Riley

Dogs

Cats

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

Where pets are named Riley

Riley as a human name

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

A unisex given name. Root meaning: “rye”.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Dog names about as popular as Riley

Riley FAQ

How many pets are named Riley?

In the public pet records we track, 1,324 pets are named Riley: 1,263 dogs, 61 cats. Where sex was recorded, 50% are female and 50% male. It ranks #36 among dog names and #158 among cat names.

What breed is most often named Riley?

Among dogs named Riley 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); 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.