Barney
How many real pets are named Barney, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Barney as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 322 pets are named Barney: 286 dogs, 34 cats, 1 rabbit, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 0% are female and 100% male. It ranks #266 among dog names and #301 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Barney
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 25
- Beagle: 17
- Chihuahua: 12
- Yorkshire Terrier: 8
- Shih Tzu: 6
Cats
Rabbits
- Rabbit Lh: 1
Others
- Havana: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Barney
- New York City: 147licensed
- Toronto: 59licensed
- Austin shelter: 42shelter
- Burnside (SA): 22licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 18shelter
- Seattle: 15licensed
- Zurich: 9licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 4licensed
- Richmond, VA: 3licensed
- Prospect (SA): 2licensed
- Adelaide: 1licensed
Barney as a human name
This is the meaning of Barney as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name: Root meaning: “growing with barley”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Barney
Dog names about as popular as Barney
Barney FAQ
How many pets are named Barney?
In the public pet records we track, 322 pets are named Barney: 286 dogs, 34 cats, 1 rabbit, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 0% are female and 100% male. It ranks #266 among dog names and #301 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Barney?
Among dogs named Barney 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); Licensed Dog and Cat Names, City of Toronto (Open Government Licence – Toronto); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Dog Registrations, City of Adelaide (CC BY 3.0 AU); 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.