Benji
How many real pets are named Benji, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Benji as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 1,142 pets are named Benji: 1,107 dogs, 33 cats, 1 rabbit, 1 ferret. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #47 among dog names and #306 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Benji
Dogs
- Yorkshire Terrier: 120
- Shih Tzu: 107
- Maltese: 59
- Poodle: 43
- Terrier: 30
Cats
Rabbits
- Rabbit Sh: 1
Ferrets
- Ferret: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Benji
- New York City: 865licensed
- Toronto: 108licensed
- Austin shelter: 82shelter
- Seattle: 27licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 17shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 14licensed
- Zurich: 14licensed
- Burnside (SA): 12licensed
- Prospect (SA): 3licensed
Benji as a human name
This is the meaning of Benji as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the male given name Benjamin.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Benji
Dog names about as popular as Benji
Benji FAQ
How many pets are named Benji?
In the public pet records we track, 1,142 pets are named Benji: 1,107 dogs, 33 cats, 1 rabbit, 1 ferret. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #47 among dog names and #306 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Benji?
Among dogs named Benji in these records, the most common breed is Yorkshire Terrier.
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); 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.