Wesley
How many real pets are named Wesley, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Wesley as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 130 pets are named Wesley: 116 dogs, 14 cats. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #664 among dog names and #764 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Wesley
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 12
- German Shepherd: 6
- Chihuahua: 6
- Shih Tzu: 4
- Maltese: 3
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Wesley
- New York City: 79licensed
- Austin shelter: 27shelter
- Seattle: 9licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 6licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 4shelter
- Burnside (SA): 2licensed
- Richmond, VA: 2licensed
- Zurich: 1licensed
Wesley as a human name
This is the meaning of Wesley as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name transferred from the surname, of 18th century and later usage, today often without any religious connotations. Root meaning: “west”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Wesley FAQ
How many pets are named Wesley?
In the public pet records we track, 130 pets are named Wesley: 116 dogs, 14 cats. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #664 among dog names and #764 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Wesley?
Among dogs named Wesley 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); 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.