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Benjamin

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

234 real pets#391 dog name#345 cat name7 places

How popular is Benjamin as a pet name?

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In the public pet records we track, 234 pets are named Benjamin: 203 dogs, 30 cats, 1 ferret. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #391 among dog names and #345 among cat names.

Breeds most often named Benjamin

Dogs

Cats

Ferrets

  • Ferret: 1

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

Where pets are named Benjamin

Benjamin as a human name

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

A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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How many pets are named Benjamin?

In the public pet records we track, 234 pets are named Benjamin: 203 dogs, 30 cats, 1 ferret. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #391 among dog names and #345 among cat names.

What breed is most often named Benjamin?

Among dogs named Benjamin in these records, the most common breed is Shih Tzu.

Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); Licensed Dog and Cat Names, City of Toronto (Open Government Licence – Toronto); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); 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.