Tommy
How many real pets are named Tommy, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Tommy as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 331 pets are named Tommy: 248 dogs, 81 cats, 2 guinea pigs. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #319 among dog names and #100 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Tommy
Dogs
- Chihuahua: 25
- Yorkshire Terrier: 19
- Shih Tzu: 17
- Labrador Retriever: 13
- German Shepherd: 10
Cats
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 2
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Tommy
- New York City: 186licensed
- Austin shelter: 59shelter
- Toronto: 36licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 19shelter
- Seattle: 18licensed
- Burnside (SA): 4licensed
- Zurich: 3licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 2licensed
- Adelaide: 2licensed
- Richmond, VA: 2licensed
Tommy as a human name
This is the meaning of Tommy as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the male given name Thomas.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Dog names about as popular as Tommy
Tommy FAQ
How many pets are named Tommy?
In the public pet records we track, 331 pets are named Tommy: 248 dogs, 81 cats, 2 guinea pigs. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #319 among dog names and #100 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Tommy?
Among dogs named Tommy 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); 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); 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.