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Beau

How many real pets are named Beau, which animals and breeds have it, and where.

637 real pets#130 dog name#221 cat name11 places

How popular is Beau as a pet name?

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In the public pet records we track, 637 pets are named Beau: 588 dogs, 48 cats, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #130 among dog names and #221 among cat names.

Breeds most often named Beau

Dogs

Cats

Others

  • Cockatiel: 1

Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.

Where pets are named Beau

Beau as a human name

This is the meaning of Beau as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.

A male given name used since mid-twentieth century.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Names similar to Beau

Dog names about as popular as Beau

Beau FAQ

How many pets are named Beau?

In the public pet records we track, 637 pets are named Beau: 588 dogs, 48 cats, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #130 among dog names and #221 among cat names.

What breed is most often named Beau?

Among dogs named Beau 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.