Shelly
How many real pets are named Shelly, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Shelly as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 65 pets are named Shelly: 56 dogs, 8 cats, 1 tortoise. Where sex was recorded, 98% are female and 2% male. It ranks #1,293 among dog names and #1,347 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Shelly
Dogs
- Terrier: 5
- Pit Bull: 5
- Chihuahua: 4
- Shih Tzu: 3
- Labrador Retriever: 3
Cats
Tortoises
- Tortoise: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Shelly
- New York City: 35licensed
- Austin shelter: 16shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 5shelter
- Seattle: 3licensed
- Zurich: 3licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 2licensed
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
Shelly as a human name
This is the meaning of Shelly as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name transferred from the surname, of mostly pre-1930 usage.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Shelly
Dog names about as popular as Shelly
Shelly FAQ
How many pets are named Shelly?
In the public pet records we track, 65 pets are named Shelly: 56 dogs, 8 cats, 1 tortoise. Where sex was recorded, 98% are female and 2% male. It ranks #1,293 among dog names and #1,347 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Shelly?
Among dogs named Shelly in these records, the most common breed is Terrier.
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); 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.