Violet
How many real pets are named Violet, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Violet as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 419 pets are named Violet: 328 dogs, 89 cats, 2 others. Where sex was recorded, 99% are female and 1% male. It ranks #224 among dog names and #82 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Violet
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 27
- Labrador Retriever: 20
- Shih Tzu: 15
- Beagle: 10
- Chihuahua: 10
Cats
Others
- Rex: 1
- Lop-Holland: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Violet
- New York City: 192licensed
- Austin shelter: 103shelter
- Toronto: 53licensed
- Seattle: 40licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 13licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 8shelter
- Richmond, VA: 5licensed
- Burnside (SA): 3licensed
- Zurich: 2licensed
Violet as a human name
This is the meaning of Violet as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from English.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Violet
Dog names about as popular as Violet
Violet FAQ
How many pets are named Violet?
In the public pet records we track, 419 pets are named Violet: 328 dogs, 89 cats, 2 others. Where sex was recorded, 99% are female and 1% male. It ranks #224 among dog names and #82 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Violet?
Among dogs named Violet 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); Licensed Dog and Cat Names, City of Toronto (Open Government Licence – Toronto); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); 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.