Benny
How many real pets are named Benny, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Benny as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 701 pets are named Benny: 637 dogs, 61 cats, 2 rabbits, 1 ferret. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #115 among dog names and #159 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Benny
Dogs
- Chihuahua: 50
- Labrador Retriever: 36
- Shih Tzu: 35
- Yorkshire Terrier: 23
- Maltese: 23
Cats
- Domestic Shorthair: 38
- American Shorthair: 3
- Siamese: 1
- Snowshoe: 1
- Manx: 1
Rabbits
- Rabbit Sh: 2
Ferrets
- Ferret: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Benny
- New York City: 433licensed
- Austin shelter: 85shelter
- Toronto: 77licensed
- Seattle: 41licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 28shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 14licensed
- Burnside (SA): 10licensed
- Richmond, VA: 6licensed
- Zurich: 4licensed
- Prospect (SA): 2licensed
- Adelaide: 1licensed
Names similar to Benny
Dog names about as popular as Benny
Benny FAQ
How many pets are named Benny?
In the public pet records we track, 701 pets are named Benny: 637 dogs, 61 cats, 2 rabbits, 1 ferret. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #115 among dog names and #159 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Benny?
Among dogs named Benny 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); 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.