The crypto craze goes to the canines.
Pet house owners are literally naming their canines “Doge” and their cats “Bitcoin,” in keeping with Rover.com’s 2021 Most Popular Pet Names and Trends of the Year report.
The web pet market has revealed an annual report on trending pet names for the previous 9 years. And 2021 marks the primary time that Bitcoin
BTCUSD,
made the checklist; it’s apparently a trending title for cats.
What’s extra, canines named after Tesla
TSLA,
CEO Elon Musk and Amazon
AMZN,
founder Jeff Bezos additionally made the checklist for the primary time — and cats named “Elon” specifically had been trending up by 343% over final 12 months.
It’s been an enormous 12 months for Dogecoin
DOGEUSD,
— the meme cryptocurrency that began as a joke, however is up 4,520.54% for the 12 months (though it’s down round 4% over the previous 5 days.) So it shouldn’t come as an excessive amount of of a shock that doggos named “Doge” had been up 106% this 12 months, in keeping with Rover.com.
Many pet dad and mom took inspiration from tech firms, in actual fact. Canines named “Amazon” jumped 363%; canines named after Apple’s
AAPL,
digital assistant “Siri” had been up 131%; whereas pups named after Alphabet’s
GOOGL,
”Google” had been up 63% in comparison with 2020.
The continuing COVID-19 pandemic has additionally seen canines named “Fauci” go up 270% in 2021, as Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden, has fetched loads of display screen time over a ruff two years. Distant work and distant education have additionally seemingly fueled Zoom
ZM,
to development up 443% as a canine title this 12 months, whereas some people have even named their canines “Covid,” which is up 35%.
Some honorable mentions for pandemic pet monikers additionally embrace the vaccine-inspired “Pfizer”
PFE,
together with “Vax” and “Dolly Parton,” who made headlines earlier within the pandemic for donating $1 million to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, which helped develop the Moderna
MRNA,
vaccine.
So what in regards to the total hottest pet names that aren’t super-trendy? The highest feminine canine names for 2021 are Bella, Luna, Lucy, Daisy and Zoe, whereas the highest male canine names are Max, Charlie, Cooper, Buddy and Milo.
