A Manchester vet has revealed the most popular pet…

A Manchester vet has revealed the most popular pet names - is yours on the list?

It's a pretty big responsibility naming your pet.

It's the thing you'll be shouting around the house for years to come, getting confused with your child or partner's name and cooing in the park or down the street when your cat or dog seemingly wants to recreate The Great Escape.

So it's important to make it a good one.

Now, a Manchester vet has revealed the most popular names for cats and dogs - and how much our choices for our fur babies have changed in the last eight decades.

White Cross Vets, which has practices in Hyde and Walkden, researched the names of all the pets they saw in 2018 and compared them to the handwritten ledgers from when their first practice opened in West Yorkshire in 1937.

Bella for dogs and Charlie for cats came out on top, with Oscar and Lola respectively just making the list in 10th place.

Adorable pooch Lenny helping to collect the data from the old ledger (White Cross Vets)

The vets have also seen a surge of pets named after TV and film characters, including Elsa from Frozen, Baloo from The Jungle Book and Peppa, inspired by the cartoon pig.

It is also probably no surprise that the number of cats and dogs sharing names with Game of Thrones characters, including Khaleesi, Sansa, Brienne and Tyrion, is also into double figures.

They also found that 16 of their registered pets were called Olive, which is the name of David Beckham's Cocker Spaniel.

These names are all a far cry from the Susie, Sally, Judy, Penny, Candy, Sam, Betty, Simon, Wendy and Bridgets of 1937.

Who have you named your pet after? (Pixabay)

Mike Robinson, from White Cross Vets in Hyde, said: "Pets are such an important part of the family, so choosing a name for them is a big and very personal decision.

"The most common names in our research reveal a leaning towards giving pets human names.

"It's fascinating that this has gone full circle and was also a trend in the late 1930s, before names such as Fido, Patch, Sooty, Duke and Fluffy became popular with cats and dogs."

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