Apollo
How many real pets are named Apollo, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Apollo as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 783 pets are named Apollo: 715 dogs, 67 cats, 1 bird. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #94 among dog names and #137 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Apollo
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 90
- German Shepherd: 48
- Labrador Retriever: 45
- Siberian Husky: 28
- Rottweiler: 20
Cats
Birds
- Conure: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Apollo
- New York City: 491licensed
- Austin shelter: 130shelter
- Toronto: 77licensed
- Seattle: 47licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 19shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 10licensed
- Zurich: 5licensed
- Richmond, VA: 3licensed
- Burnside (SA): 1licensed
Apollo as a human name
This is the meaning of Apollo as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Dog names about as popular as Apollo
Apollo FAQ
How many pets are named Apollo?
In the public pet records we track, 783 pets are named Apollo: 715 dogs, 67 cats, 1 bird. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #94 among dog names and #137 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Apollo?
Among dogs named Apollo 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); 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.