Baxter
How many real pets are named Baxter, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Baxter as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 559 pets are named Baxter: 510 dogs, 48 cats, 1 chinchilla. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #148 among dog names and #223 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Baxter
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 27
- Beagle: 23
- Chihuahua: 18
- Yorkshire Terrier: 16
- Maltese: 16
Cats
Chinchillas
- Chinchilla-Stnd: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Baxter
- New York City: 319licensed
- Austin shelter: 82shelter
- Toronto: 67licensed
- Seattle: 40licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 18licensed
- Burnside (SA): 11licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 10shelter
- Richmond, VA: 7licensed
- Zurich: 2licensed
- Prospect (SA): 2licensed
- Adelaide: 1licensed
Baxter as a human name
This is the meaning of Baxter as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name transferred from the surname. Root meaning: “baker”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Dog names about as popular as Baxter
Baxter FAQ
How many pets are named Baxter?
In the public pet records we track, 559 pets are named Baxter: 510 dogs, 48 cats, 1 chinchilla. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #148 among dog names and #223 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Baxter?
Among dogs named Baxter 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.