Bill
How many real pets are named Bill, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Bill as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 76 pets are named Bill: 57 dogs, 19 cats. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #1,272 among dog names and #570 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Bill
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 5
- Dachshund: 4
- Boxer: 3
- Pit Bull: 3
- Maltese: 2
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Bill
- New York City: 33licensed
- Austin shelter: 17shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 9shelter
- Seattle: 7licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 4licensed
- Burnside (SA): 4licensed
- Zurich: 1licensed
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
Bill as a human name
This is the meaning of Bill as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the male given name William.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Bill
Dog names about as popular as Bill
Bill FAQ
How many pets are named Bill?
In the public pet records we track, 76 pets are named Bill: 57 dogs, 19 cats. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #1,272 among dog names and #570 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Bill?
Among dogs named Bill 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); 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.