Amber
How many real pets are named Amber, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Amber as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 254 pets are named Amber: 196 dogs, 57 cats, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 98% are female and 2% male. It ranks #409 among dog names and #187 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Amber
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 21
- Labrador Retriever: 16
- Golden Retriever: 10
- Chihuahua: 9
- Shih Tzu: 8
Cats
- Domestic Shorthair: 32
- Domestic Medium Hair: 3
- Somali: 1
- Maine Coon: 1
- Persian: 1
Others
- Silver: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Amber
- New York City: 153licensed
- Austin shelter: 57shelter
- Toronto: 18licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 9shelter
- Burnside (SA): 6licensed
- Seattle: 5licensed
- Zurich: 2licensed
- Richmond, VA: 2licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 1licensed
- Prospect (SA): 1licensed
Amber as a human name
This is the meaning of Amber as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from English, popular in the 1980s and the 1990s.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Amber
Dog names about as popular as Amber
Amber FAQ
How many pets are named Amber?
In the public pet records we track, 254 pets are named Amber: 196 dogs, 57 cats, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 98% are female and 2% male. It ranks #409 among dog names and #187 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Amber?
Among dogs named Amber 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); Licensed Dog and Cat Names, City of Toronto (Open Government Licence – Toronto); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Burnside Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); City of Prospect Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); Pet Licenses, City of Richmond; 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.