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How many real pets are named Bo, which animals and breeds have it, and where.

395 real pets#185 dog name#888 cat name10 places

How popular is Bo as a pet name?

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In the public pet records we track, 395 pets are named Bo: 382 dogs, 12 cats, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 10% are female and 90% male. It ranks #185 among dog names and #888 among cat names.

Breeds most often named Bo

Dogs

Cats

Others

  • Sheep: 1

Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.

Where pets are named Bo

Bo as a human name

This is the meaning of Bo as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.

A male given name of occasional usage since the 1970s.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Names similar to Bo

Dog names about as popular as Bo

Bo FAQ

How many pets are named Bo?

In the public pet records we track, 395 pets are named Bo: 382 dogs, 12 cats, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 10% are female and 90% male. It ranks #185 among dog names and #888 among cat names.

What breed is most often named Bo?

Among dogs named Bo 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); Dog Registrations, City of Adelaide (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.