Royal names are a small club with enormous membership. Only 19 names carry the tag, but they are not obscure titles — they are some of the most registered names anywhere in this catalogue, which makes royal the densest tag on the site.
Small tag, heaviest names
The 19 royal names average 580 registrations each — far above the catalogue norm. Princess, Prince and King sit near the very top of every register counted, so the site's biggest names are hiding inside one of its smallest tags. A tag's size measures how many names can be classified, not how many animals carry them.
The best-documented theme
A title is exactly the kind of word a dictionary defines, so royal names carry a sourced meaning more often than most of the catalogue does. That is the rare case here where the label and a checked meaning point the same way.
What it will not tell you
Whether the name suits your animal's bearing. Duke is a title, not a temperament, and nothing in these registers connects a regal-sounding name to how a pet behaves.
What are the most popular royal pet names?
Princess, Prince and King lead by a wide margin — among the most registered names in the entire catalogue. The list above reads the current order live rather than quoting a fixed number.
Why is the royal tag so small?
Because a name carries a single style label, so a title that also reads as something else appears under only one tag. The 19 it holds are a floor, not a ceiling.
Are royal pet names actually used?
Heavily. The 19 names average 580 registrations each, the densest tag on the site, so these are mainstream choices rather than novelties.
Every count on this site is a tally of real registrations: pet licences and shelter intakes published as open data by New York, Seattle, Worcester, Victoria BC, Austin, Montgomery County, Cambridge, Zurich, Basel and seven Australian councils. Popularity here is a source-group share score, so a name common in a small city is not buried by one common in a large one. The source list is North American-heavy by record count, so read the ordering as naming in those places rather than worldwide. Browse the whole catalogue or read how the data is put together.