Sal
How many real pets are named Sal, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Sal as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 36 pets are named Sal: 25 dogs, 11 cats. Where sex was recorded, 11% are female and 89% male. It ranks #2,480 among dog names and #1,042 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Sal
Dogs
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Sal
- New York City: 16licensed
- Austin shelter: 10shelter
- Seattle: 5licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 4shelter
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
Sal as a human name
This is the meaning of Sal as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the male given names Salomon, Salvador, and Salvatore.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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How many pets are named Sal?
In the public pet records we track, 36 pets are named Sal: 25 dogs, 11 cats. Where sex was recorded, 11% are female and 89% male. It ranks #2,480 among dog names and #1,042 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Sal?
Among dogs named Sal in these records, the most common breed is Dachshund, Long Haired Miniature.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); 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.