Willy
How many real pets are named Willy, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Willy as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 135 pets are named Willy: 121 dogs, 14 cats. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #640 among dog names and #763 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Willy
Dogs
- Chihuahua: 9
- Labrador Retriever: 7
- Pit Bull: 5
- Maltese: 5
- Dachshund: 5
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Willy
- New York City: 77licensed
- Austin shelter: 28shelter
- Seattle: 9licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 8licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 7shelter
- Zurich: 4licensed
- Burnside (SA): 1licensed
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
Willy as a human name
This is the meaning of Willy as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the male given name William
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Willy
Dog names about as popular as Willy
Willy FAQ
How many pets are named Willy?
In the public pet records we track, 135 pets are named Willy: 121 dogs, 14 cats. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #640 among dog names and #763 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Willy?
Among dogs named Willy 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); 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.