Tilly
How many real pets are named Tilly, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Tilly as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 286 pets are named Tilly: 259 dogs, 25 cats, 1 guinea pig, 1 tortoise. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #302 among dog names and #412 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Tilly
Dogs
Cats
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 1
Tortoises
- Tortoise: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Tilly
- New York City: 104licensed
- Austin shelter: 51shelter
- Toronto: 41licensed
- Seattle: 29licensed
- Burnside (SA): 29licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 10licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 9shelter
- Prospect (SA): 4licensed
- Richmond, VA: 4licensed
- Zurich: 3licensed
- Adelaide: 2licensed
Tilly as a human name
This is the meaning of Tilly as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the female given name Matilda.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Tilly
Dog names about as popular as Tilly
Tilly FAQ
How many pets are named Tilly?
In the public pet records we track, 286 pets are named Tilly: 259 dogs, 25 cats, 1 guinea pig, 1 tortoise. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #302 among dog names and #412 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Tilly?
Among dogs named Tilly 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.