Sally
How many real pets are named Sally, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Sally as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 390 pets are named Sally: 320 dogs, 67 cats, 1 horse, 1 goat, 1 snake. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #235 among dog names and #139 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Sally
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 35
- Pit Bull: 19
- Chihuahua: 15
- Beagle: 11
- Shih Tzu: 8
Cats
Horses
- Horse: 1
Goats
- Goat: 1
Snakes
- Snake: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Sally
- New York City: 170licensed
- Austin shelter: 90shelter
- Toronto: 53licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 20shelter
- Seattle: 19licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 14licensed
- Zurich: 8licensed
- Prospect (SA): 6licensed
- Burnside (SA): 5licensed
- Richmond, VA: 4licensed
- Adelaide: 1licensed
Sally as a human name
This is the meaning of Sally as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the female given name Sarah, also used as a formal given name.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Sally
Dog names about as popular as Sally
Sally FAQ
How many pets are named Sally?
In the public pet records we track, 390 pets are named Sally: 320 dogs, 67 cats, 1 horse, 1 goat, 1 snake. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #235 among dog names and #139 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Sally?
Among dogs named Sally 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); Dog Registrations, City of Adelaide (CC BY 3.0 AU); 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.