August
How many real pets are named August, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is August as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 125 pets are named August: 112 dogs, 13 cats. Where sex was recorded, 21% are female and 79% male. It ranks #690 among dog names and #833 among cat names.
Breeds most often named August
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 11
- Pit Bull: 8
- Chihuahua: 8
- Shih Tzu: 7
- Maltese: 5
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named August
- New York City: 94licensed
- Austin shelter: 17shelter
- Seattle: 12licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 1licensed
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
August as a human name
This is the meaning of August as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from English derived from the month (of birth). Root meaning: “month of August”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to August
Dog names about as popular as August
August FAQ
How many pets are named August?
In the public pet records we track, 125 pets are named August: 112 dogs, 13 cats. Where sex was recorded, 21% are female and 79% male. It ranks #690 among dog names and #833 among cat names.
What breed is most often named August?
Among dogs named August in these records, the most common breed is Labrador Retriever.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); Dogs of Cambridge (ODC PDDL); Pet Licenses, City of Richmond; 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.