Whitney
How many real pets are named Whitney, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Whitney as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 44 pets are named Whitney: 37 dogs, 7 cats. Where sex was recorded, 92% are female and 8% male. It ranks #1,841 among dog names and #1,543 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Whitney
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 7
- Beagle: 3
- Poodle: 3
- Yorkshire Terrier: 2
- Maltese: 1
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Whitney
- New York City: 25licensed
- Austin shelter: 10shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 4shelter
- Seattle: 2licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 2licensed
- Zurich: 1licensed
Whitney as a human name
This is the meaning of Whitney as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name transferred from the surname, popular in the 1980s and 1990s due to the fame of Whitney Houston. Root meaning: “white”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Dog names about as popular as Whitney
Whitney FAQ
How many pets are named Whitney?
In the public pet records we track, 44 pets are named Whitney: 37 dogs, 7 cats. Where sex was recorded, 92% are female and 8% male. It ranks #1,841 among dog names and #1,543 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Whitney?
Among dogs named Whitney 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); 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.