Spike
How many real pets are named Spike, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Spike as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 392 pets are named Spike: 371 dogs, 21 cats. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #198 among dog names and #500 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Spike
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 41
- Yorkshire Terrier: 35
- Chihuahua: 34
- Labrador Retriever: 16
- Maltese: 16
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Spike
- New York City: 263licensed
- Austin shelter: 68shelter
- Seattle: 20licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 20shelter
- Burnside (SA): 6licensed
- Richmond, VA: 6licensed
- Zurich: 5licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 2licensed
- Adelaide: 1licensed
- Prospect (SA): 1licensed
Names similar to Spike
Dog names about as popular as Spike
Spike FAQ
How many pets are named Spike?
In the public pet records we track, 392 pets are named Spike: 371 dogs, 21 cats. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #198 among dog names and #500 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Spike?
Among dogs named Spike 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); 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.