Achilles
How many real pets are named Achilles, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Achilles as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 111 pets are named Achilles: 107 dogs, 4 cats. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #726 among dog names and #2,330 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Achilles
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 13
- Boxer: 9
- Siberian Husky: 7
- Labrador Retriever: 6
- Chihuahua: 5
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Achilles
- New York City: 79licensed
- Austin shelter: 21shelter
- Seattle: 4licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 3licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 3shelter
- Zurich: 1licensed
Achilles as a human name
This is the meaning of Achilles as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Ancient Greek.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Dog names about as popular as Achilles
Achilles FAQ
How many pets are named Achilles?
In the public pet records we track, 111 pets are named Achilles: 107 dogs, 4 cats. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #726 among dog names and #2,330 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Achilles?
Among dogs named Achilles in these records, the most common breed is Pit Bull.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); Dogs of Cambridge (ODC PDDL); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Animal Shelter Intake and Outcome, County of Sonoma; Austin Animal Center Outcomes (public domain). License records count registered pets; shelter records count animals that passed through a shelter (some names are given by staff). Pets that appear in several years of one dataset are counted once. Names are counted as written, so spelling variants are separate.