Benson
How many real pets are named Benson, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Benson as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 132 pets are named Benson: 124 dogs, 8 cats. Where sex was recorded, 8% are female and 92% male. It ranks #626 among dog names and #1,314 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Benson
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 9
- Shih Tzu: 7
- German Shepherd: 5
- Poodle: 5
- Goldendoodle: 4
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Benson
- New York City: 84licensed
- Austin shelter: 15shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 9licensed
- Burnside (SA): 9licensed
- Seattle: 7licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 5shelter
- Richmond, VA: 2licensed
- Prospect (SA): 1licensed
Benson as a human name
This is the meaning of Benson as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Benson
Dog names about as popular as Benson
Benson FAQ
How many pets are named Benson?
In the public pet records we track, 132 pets are named Benson: 124 dogs, 8 cats. Where sex was recorded, 8% are female and 92% male. It ranks #626 among dog names and #1,314 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Benson?
Among dogs named Benson 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); 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.