Stella
How many real pets are named Stella, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Stella as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 1,693 pets are named Stella: 1,564 dogs, 125 cats, 2 others, 1 rabbit, 1 bird. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #28 among dog names and #44 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Stella
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 99
- Pit Bull: 77
- German Shepherd: 59
- Chihuahua: 57
- French Bulldog: 43
Cats
Rabbits
- Rabbit Sh: 1
Others
- Lionhead: 1
Birds
- Cockatiel: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Stella
- New York City: 1,026licensed
- Toronto: 247licensed
- Austin shelter: 170shelter
- Seattle: 109licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 49shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 30licensed
- Zurich: 28licensed
- Richmond, VA: 16licensed
- Burnside (SA): 11licensed
- Prospect (SA): 4licensed
- Adelaide: 3licensed
Stella as a human name
This is the meaning of Stella as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from Latin. Root meaning: “star”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Stella
Dog names about as popular as Stella
Stella FAQ
How many pets are named Stella?
In the public pet records we track, 1,693 pets are named Stella: 1,564 dogs, 125 cats, 2 others, 1 rabbit, 1 bird. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #28 among dog names and #44 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Stella?
Among dogs named Stella in these records, the most common breed is Labrador Retriever.
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); 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.