Roy
How many real pets are named Roy, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Roy as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 109 pets are named Roy: 93 dogs, 15 cats, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #828 among dog names and #717 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Roy
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 8
- Chihuahua: 7
- German Shepherd: 6
- Pit Bull: 6
- Shih Tzu: 4
Cats
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Roy
- New York City: 62licensed
- Austin shelter: 22shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 6shelter
- Zurich: 5licensed
- Burnside (SA): 5licensed
- Seattle: 4licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 3licensed
- Adelaide: 2licensed
Roy as a human name
This is the meaning of Roy as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Scottish Gaelic. Root meaning: “king”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Roy
Dog names about as popular as Roy
Roy FAQ
How many pets are named Roy?
In the public pet records we track, 109 pets are named Roy: 93 dogs, 15 cats, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #828 among dog names and #717 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Roy?
Among dogs named Roy 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); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Dog Registrations, City of Adelaide (CC BY 3.0 AU); Burnside 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.