Teddy
How many real pets are named Teddy, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Teddy as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 2,581 pets are named Teddy: 2,483 dogs, 96 cats, 1 goat, 1 rabbit. Where sex was recorded, 5% are female and 95% male. It ranks #11 among dog names and #72 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Teddy
Dogs
- Shih Tzu: 320
- Yorkshire Terrier: 181
- Poodle: 151
- Bichon Frise: 94
- Maltese: 88
Cats
Goats
- Miniature: 1
Rabbits
- Rabbit Sh: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Teddy
- New York City: 1,914licensed
- Toronto: 277licensed
- Austin shelter: 143shelter
- Seattle: 102licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 61licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 34shelter
- Zurich: 24licensed
- Burnside (SA): 13licensed
- Richmond, VA: 11licensed
- Adelaide: 1licensed
- Prospect (SA): 1licensed
Teddy as a human name
This is the meaning of Teddy as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the male given names Edward and Theodore, or of their diminutives Ted and Tedd.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Teddy
Dog names about as popular as Teddy
Teddy FAQ
How many pets are named Teddy?
In the public pet records we track, 2,581 pets are named Teddy: 2,483 dogs, 96 cats, 1 goat, 1 rabbit. Where sex was recorded, 5% are female and 95% male. It ranks #11 among dog names and #72 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Teddy?
Among dogs named Teddy in these records, the most common breed is Shih Tzu.
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.