Boris
How many real pets are named Boris, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Boris as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 135 pets are named Boris: 116 dogs, 17 cats, 1 rabbit, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #661 among dog names and #633 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Boris
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 10
- Pug: 8
- Labrador Retriever: 8
- Siberian Husky: 5
- Terrier: 5
Cats
Rabbits
- Rabbit Sh: 1
Others
- Angora-Satin: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Boris
- New York City: 73licensed
- Austin shelter: 37shelter
- Seattle: 14licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 5shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 3licensed
- Burnside (SA): 2licensed
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
Boris as a human name
This is the meaning of Boris as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from the Slavic languages.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Boris
Dog names about as popular as Boris
Boris FAQ
How many pets are named Boris?
In the public pet records we track, 135 pets are named Boris: 116 dogs, 17 cats, 1 rabbit, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #661 among dog names and #633 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Boris?
Among dogs named Boris 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); 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.