Bear
How many real pets are named Bear, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Bear as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 1,491 pets are named Bear: 1,398 dogs, 92 cats, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 9% are female and 91% male. It ranks #33 among dog names and #78 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Bear
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 110
- German Shepherd: 78
- Shih Tzu: 61
- Pit Bull: 58
- Yorkshire Terrier: 54
Cats
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Bear
- New York City: 869licensed
- Austin shelter: 222shelter
- Toronto: 181licensed
- Seattle: 104licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 61shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 31licensed
- Richmond, VA: 13licensed
- Burnside (SA): 7licensed
- Zurich: 2licensed
- Prospect (SA): 1licensed
Bear as a human name
This is the meaning of Bear as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Bear
Dog names about as popular as Bear
Bear FAQ
How many pets are named Bear?
In the public pet records we track, 1,491 pets are named Bear: 1,398 dogs, 92 cats, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 9% are female and 91% male. It ranks #33 among dog names and #78 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Bear?
Among dogs named Bear 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); 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.