Undecided is not a pet name. It's a paperwork artifact — a placeholder entered on a registry form when the owner hadn't yet chosen a name and wrote exactly what they were feeling. At rank 1155 with 99 appearances in the dataset, it represents 99 animals who may have eventually gotten proper names but whose registry records were never updated. This is one of the clearest data artifacts in the pet registry.
How Registry Artifacts Work
Pet licensing systems in cities like New York and Seattle require a name at registration. When owners don't have one ready, they sometimes write descriptions ("Unknown," "TBD") or, as here, exactly what the situation is: Undecided. These entries persist in the database because license holders rarely return to update them. The animal is almost certainly named something by now — Undecided just stuck in the record.
What This Tells Us
The presence of Undecided in the top 1200 pet names is a reminder that naming datasets are records of a moment, not permanent descriptions. Animals get named, renamed, and sometimes never officially renamed in paperwork. If you're here because you're genuinely considering Undecided as an ironic pet name, that's a different conversation — and it's actually not without precedent as a concept-name choice, in the tradition of naming pets Unnamed or Anonymous.
Choosing a Real Name
If you're in the Undecided phase, the pet names directory can help. For quick, confident choices, look at single-syllable names like Max, Ace, or Fig. Decision made.