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Shelby

How many real pets are named Shelby, which animals and breeds have it, and where.

294 real pets#282 dog name#584 cat name10 places

How popular is Shelby as a pet name?

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In the public pet records we track, 294 pets are named Shelby: 276 dogs, 18 cats. Where sex was recorded, 89% are female and 11% male. It ranks #282 among dog names and #584 among cat names.

Breeds most often named Shelby

Dogs

Cats

Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.

Where pets are named Shelby

Shelby as a human name

This is the meaning of Shelby as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.

A unisex given name transferred from the surname. Root meaning: “dweller of the willow place”.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Names similar to Shelby

Dog names about as popular as Shelby

Shelby FAQ

How many pets are named Shelby?

In the public pet records we track, 294 pets are named Shelby: 276 dogs, 18 cats. Where sex was recorded, 89% are female and 11% male. It ranks #282 among dog names and #584 among cat names.

What breed is most often named Shelby?

Among dogs named Shelby in these records, the most common breed is German Shepherd.

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); 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.