Shirley
How many real pets are named Shirley, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Shirley as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 86 pets are named Shirley: 73 dogs, 11 cats, 1 other, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #1,031 among dog names and #995 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Shirley
Dogs
- Chihuahua: 8
- Poodle: 6
- German Shepherd: 5
- Labrador Retriever: 5
- Goldendoodle: 4
Cats
Others
- Harlequin: 1
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Shirley
- New York City: 46licensed
- Austin shelter: 30shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 5shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 2licensed
- Seattle: 1licensed
- Burnside (SA): 1licensed
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
Shirley as a human name
This is the meaning of Shirley as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name transferred from the surname. Root meaning: “county”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Shirley
Dog names about as popular as Shirley
Shirley FAQ
How many pets are named Shirley?
In the public pet records we track, 86 pets are named Shirley: 73 dogs, 11 cats, 1 other, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #1,031 among dog names and #995 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Shirley?
Among dogs named Shirley in these records, the most common breed is Chihuahua.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); Dogs of Cambridge (ODC PDDL); 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.