Rita
How many real pets are named Rita, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Rita as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 108 pets are named Rita: 94 dogs, 14 cats. Where sex was recorded, 99% are female and 1% male. It ranks #821 among dog names and #769 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Rita
Dogs
- Chihuahua: 12
- Labrador Retriever: 8
- Pit Bull: 7
- Dachshund: 5
- Terrier: 4
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Rita
- New York City: 57licensed
- Austin shelter: 26shelter
- Seattle: 12licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 6shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 5licensed
- Zurich: 2licensed
Rita as a human name
This is the meaning of Rita as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from the Romance languages, Italian, or Spanish.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Rita
Dog names about as popular as Rita
Rita FAQ
How many pets are named Rita?
In the public pet records we track, 108 pets are named Rita: 94 dogs, 14 cats. Where sex was recorded, 99% are female and 1% male. It ranks #821 among dog names and #769 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Rita?
Among dogs named Rita 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.