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Missy
Missy ranks #158 with 681 entries and is one of the most generationally specific female pet names in the rankings. The name reads as 1970s-1990s American suburban, slightly grandm…
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Mochi
Mochi ranks #96 with 1,013 entries and is one of the cleanest examples of food-name globalization in modern American pet naming. The Japanese rice-cake dessert lent its name to a…
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Nellie
Nellie ranks #353 with 343 entries and is one of the most charmingly old-fashioned female pet names on the lower-mid chart. Two syllables, soft consonants, and a strong Victorian-…
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Nena
Nena ranks at #199 with 536 entries, and the name carries Spanish and Italian heritage that makes it slightly distinctive at this rank. Nena means "baby girl" or "little girl" in…
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Nico
Nico ranks at #178 with 582 entries, and the name follows the same Italian-and-Spanish-coded male trajectory as Luca and Leo . It is a diminutive form (of Nicholas, Nicolás, or Ni…
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Nina
Nina ranks #151 with 705 entries and is one of the more cross-culturally portable female pet names in our top 200. The name appears in Spanish, Italian, Russian, Hebrew, and Quech…
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Nino
Nino ranks at #396 with 313 entries, leaning male. The name is a diminutive used across multiple Romance languages — Italian (where it can shorten Giovannino or Antonino), Spanish…
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Not
Not ranks #117 with 937 entries, and it is one of the more curious entries in our top 200. The word reads as a typo or a registry error — but it is consistent enough across the NY…
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Odin
Odin ranks at #381 with 326 entries, leaning male. This is one of the cleanest Norse-mythology-anchored pet names on the chart. Odin (Old Norse: "frenzy" or "fury," the Allfather…
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Olive
Olive ranks #63 among pets with 1,358 entries, almost all of them female and overwhelmingly small. It is one of the cleaner examples of a name that arrived through the cottagecore…
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Oliver
Oliver is the most formal-sounding name in our top 20 pet list. With 2,736 entries at rank #20, he carries an almost three-syllable weight (OL-i-ver) that pet-naming convention ge…
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Pablo
Pablo ranks #336 with 358 entries and is one of the most artist-and-icon-anchored male pet names on the lower-mid chart. The name carries a strong Spanish-language register and pu…
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Paco
Paco ranks at #399 with 310 entries, leaning male. A Spanish diminutive of Francisco, Paco is one of the cleanest Spanish-language pet names on the chart — short, warm, and unambi…
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Parker
Parker ranks at #172 with 593 entries, and it sits in the surname-as-given-name category that has grown steadily on both baby and pet charts since the early 2000s. The name reads…
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Patches
Patches ranks #327 with 363 entries and is one of the most visually-anchored gender-neutral pet names on the chart. The name describes the coat, full stop. Owners pick it for mult…
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Pebbles
Pebbles ranks #148 with 708 entries and is one of the most visually descriptive female pet names in the rankings. The name does literal work: most Pebbles are spotted, mottled, or…
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Petey
Petey ranks #255 with 442 entries and is one of the most pop-culture-anchored pet names in the chart. The name traces directly to Petey the pit bull from The Little Rascals (the o…
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Pluto
Pluto ranks at #387 with 319 entries, leaning male. This is one of the most layered cultural-anchor names on the chart. The Disney dog (Mickey Mouse's pet, debuted 1930), the Roma…
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Poodle
Poodle ranks #345 with 346 entries and is one of the strangest entries on the lower-mid chart: a breed name being used as a personal name. Owners who pick this are almost always m…
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Poppy
Poppy ranks #159 with 676 entries and is one of the most cleanly British-feeling female pet names in our American data. The name reads as floral, slightly upscale, and unambiguous…
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