Thanks to the lead actress in the Twilight saga, ?Bella? continues to reign as the number one pet name for female dogs and cats and the number three name for birds and exotics in Veterinary Pet Insurance?s (VPI) top pet names of 2012.
VPI sorted its database of more than 485,000 insured pets to determine the most popular pet names of 2012. Following are the top 10 most common names for dogs and cats, as well as birds and exotic pets:
| Dogs | Cats | Birds and Exotics |
| 1. Bella | 1. Bella | 1. Charlie |
| 2. Bailey | 2. Max | 2. Buddy |
| 3. Max | 3. Chloe | 3. Bella |
| 4. Lucy | 4. Oliver | 4. Max |
| 5. Molly | 5. Lucy | 5. Angel |
| 6. Buddy | 6. Smokey | 6. Baby |
| 7. Daisy | 7. Shadow | 7. Coco |
| 8. Maggie | 8. Tiger | 8. Rocky |
| 9. Charlie | 9. Charlie | 9. Bandit |
| 10. Sophie | 10. Tigger | 10. Sunny |
Pet owners continue to prefer human names for their furry friends. Each of the top five dog and cat names were also among Babycenter.com?s 100 most popular baby names of 2012. Meanwhile, traditional dog names continue to trend downward. Of the nearly half a million pets insured by VPI, only 11 dogs barked to ?Fido,? and just 65 cats purred to ?Fluffy.?
?The popularity of people names doubling as pet names is a testament to the bigger trend of pet owners viewing their pets as members of the family,? said Curtis Steinhoff, director of Corporate Communications at VPI. ?It?s now just as common for a pet to be named ?Oliver? or ?Chloe? as it is for a child.?
For the third straight year, ?Charlie? topped the list of bird and exotic pet names. Although the top 10 canine and feline names went virtually unchanged in 2012, ?Bella,? ?Rocky? and ?Bandit? cracked the birds and exotics top 10 list for the first time.
Although ?Bella? and ?Max? continued their reign as the as most popular pet names for the fourth consecutive year, thousands of other pets are donning monikers of a less conventional form, such as ?Tuff Buckaroo? and ?Ziggy Stardust Floyd.?
To view some of the more creative monikers selected for VPI?s Top 10 Most Unusual Pet Names of 2012, visit www.wackypetnames.com.
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