Petnomy is a small, independent guide to naming and caring for pets. We help you find a name that fits — by meaning, origin, sound or animal — and back it up with clear, practical reading on breeds and everyday care. Everything is free to read, in four languages, and written to be genuinely useful rather than to chase clicks.

The catalogue is built from public registers rather than invented. Every name carries what can actually be checked — where it comes from, how common it is, how it sounds — and where a figure appears in an article, it is measured from the catalogue when the page is built, not typed in by hand and left to go stale. Breed facts come from open data with every source named. Where something cannot be measured, we say so plainly instead of rounding it into a claim.

What we will not do matters just as much. No sponsored name lists, no breeds ranked by what pays, no name called “trending” because it makes a better headline. If an article cannot tell you something useful in its first paragraph, it has no reason to exist — and the four languages are written by hand, not run through a machine and published unread.

The editorial team

Petnomy is written and edited by its own small editorial team and published under the Petnomy name, without individual bylines: what you read here answers to the publication as a whole. Every breed fact comes from an open source, and every source is named; the figures in articles are counted from the catalogue each time the site is built, and an automated check stops the build when an article claims something the data no longer supports.

How we work

Our articles are general information, not professional veterinary, legal or financial advice — when something matters, check with a qualified professional.