Choosing a pet name

The lists elsewhere on this site tell you what people call their animals. They cannot tell you what to call yours, and the difference is what this section is about.

A popular name is easy to say, instantly understood and spelled back correctly by every vet — and it means three animals turning round in the park. A rare name avoids that and asks you to spell it for the rest of its life. Nothing in the data resolves that trade-off; it only tells you honestly which side of it a name sits on.