Bessie
How many real pets are named Bessie, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Bessie as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 81 pets are named Bessie: 72 dogs, 9 cats. Where sex was recorded, 97% are female and 3% male. It ranks #1,046 among dog names and #1,221 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Bessie
Dogs
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Bessie
- New York City: 44licensed
- Austin shelter: 15shelter
- Seattle: 8licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 5shelter
- Burnside (SA): 4licensed
- Zurich: 3licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 2licensed
Bessie as a human name
This is the meaning of Bessie as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth, also used as a formal female given name.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Bessie
Dog names about as popular as Bessie
Bessie FAQ
How many pets are named Bessie?
In the public pet records we track, 81 pets are named Bessie: 72 dogs, 9 cats. Where sex was recorded, 97% are female and 3% male. It ranks #1,046 among dog names and #1,221 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Bessie?
Among dogs named Bessie in these records, the most common breed is Pit Bull.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); Dogs of Cambridge (ODC PDDL); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Burnside 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.