Sheila
How many real pets are named Sheila, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Sheila as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 71 pets are named Sheila: 64 dogs, 7 cats. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #1,155 among dog names and #1,497 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Sheila
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 7
- German Shepherd: 6
- Australian Shepherd: 4
- Shih Tzu: 3
- Rottweiler: 3
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Sheila
- New York City: 34licensed
- Austin shelter: 16shelter
- Seattle: 6licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 6shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 5licensed
- Zurich: 2licensed
- Burnside (SA): 1licensed
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
Sheila as a human name
This is the meaning of Sheila as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from Irish, popular in the UK from the 1920s to the 1950s; variant forms Shelagh, Sheelagh, Sheilagh, Sheela, Sile.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Sheila
Dog names about as popular as Sheila
Sheila FAQ
How many pets are named Sheila?
In the public pet records we track, 71 pets are named Sheila: 64 dogs, 7 cats. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #1,155 among dog names and #1,497 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Sheila?
Among dogs named Sheila in these records, the most common breed is Pit Bull.
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); Burnside 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.