Bobby
How many real pets are named Bobby, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Bobby as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 442 pets are named Bobby: 376 dogs, 64 cats, 2 others. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #189 among dog names and #148 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Bobby
Dogs
- Chihuahua: 30
- Shih Tzu: 28
- Labrador Retriever: 23
- Maltese: 20
- Pit Bull: 17
Cats
Others
- American: 1
- Sheep: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Bobby
- New York City: 226licensed
- Austin shelter: 85shelter
- Toronto: 55licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 23shelter
- Zurich: 22licensed
- Seattle: 10licensed
- Burnside (SA): 10licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 5licensed
- Adelaide: 2licensed
- Prospect (SA): 2licensed
- Richmond, VA: 2licensed
Bobby as a human name
This is the meaning of Bobby 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).
Names similar to Bobby
Dog names about as popular as Bobby
Bobby FAQ
How many pets are named Bobby?
In the public pet records we track, 442 pets are named Bobby: 376 dogs, 64 cats, 2 others. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #189 among dog names and #148 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Bobby?
Among dogs named Bobby in these records, the most common breed is Chihuahua.
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); Burnside Dog Registrations (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.