Bob
How many real pets are named Bob, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Bob as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 187 pets are named Bob: 127 dogs, 58 cats, 2 guinea pigs. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #608 among dog names and #183 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Bob
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 11
- Shih Tzu: 10
- Chihuahua: 6
- Bichon Frise: 5
- Pit Bull: 5
Cats
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 2
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Bob
- New York City: 84licensed
- Austin shelter: 38shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 23shelter
- Toronto: 14licensed
- Seattle: 13licensed
- Burnside (SA): 7licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 3licensed
- Richmond, VA: 3licensed
- Adelaide: 2licensed
Bob as a human name
This is the meaning of Bob as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the male given name Robert.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Dog names about as popular as Bob
Bob FAQ
How many pets are named Bob?
In the public pet records we track, 187 pets are named Bob: 127 dogs, 58 cats, 2 guinea pigs. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #608 among dog names and #183 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Bob?
Among dogs named Bob 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); Dog Registrations, City of Adelaide (CC BY 3.0 AU); 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.