Bernie
How many real pets are named Bernie, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Bernie as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 282 pets are named Bernie: 255 dogs, 26 cats, 1 ferret. Where sex was recorded, 12% are female and 88% male. It ranks #308 among dog names and #402 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Bernie
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 13
- Bernese Mountain Dog: 12
- Poodle: 10
- Shih Tzu: 10
- Yorkshire Terrier: 8
Cats
Ferrets
- Ferret: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Bernie
- New York City: 163licensed
- Austin shelter: 49shelter
- Toronto: 33licensed
- Seattle: 21licensed
- Richmond, VA: 5licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 5shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 4licensed
- Zurich: 1licensed
- Burnside (SA): 1licensed
Bernie as a human name
This is the meaning of Bernie as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A unisex given name.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Bernie
Dog names about as popular as Bernie
Bernie FAQ
How many pets are named Bernie?
In the public pet records we track, 282 pets are named Bernie: 255 dogs, 26 cats, 1 ferret. Where sex was recorded, 12% are female and 88% male. It ranks #308 among dog names and #402 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Bernie?
Among dogs named Bernie 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); 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); 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.