Benedict
How many real pets are named Benedict, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Benedict as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 30 pets are named Benedict: 24 dogs, 6 cats. Where sex was recorded, 4% are female and 96% male. It ranks #2,571 among dog names and #1,819 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Benedict
Dogs
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Benedict
- New York City: 18licensed
- Austin shelter: 10shelter
- Seattle: 2licensed
Benedict as a human name
This is the meaning of Benedict as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Latin, particularly of the sixth-century founder of the Benedictine order, and of several popes. Root meaning: “blessed, well spoken of”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Benedict FAQ
How many pets are named Benedict?
In the public pet records we track, 30 pets are named Benedict: 24 dogs, 6 cats. Where sex was recorded, 4% are female and 96% male. It ranks #2,571 among dog names and #1,819 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Benedict?
Among dogs named Benedict in these records, the most common breed is Chihuahua.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); 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.