Brian
How many real pets are named Brian, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Brian as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 63 pets are named Brian: 51 dogs, 12 cats. Where sex was recorded, 0% are female and 100% male. It ranks #1,398 among dog names and #927 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Brian
Dogs
Cats
- Domestic Shorthair: 10
- Siamese: 1
- Maine Coon: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Brian
- New York City: 38licensed
- Austin shelter: 16shelter
- Seattle: 4licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 4shelter
- Burnside (SA): 1licensed
Brian as a human name
This is the meaning of Brian as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Irish.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Brian
Dog names about as popular as Brian
Brian FAQ
How many pets are named Brian?
In the public pet records we track, 63 pets are named Brian: 51 dogs, 12 cats. Where sex was recorded, 0% are female and 100% male. It ranks #1,398 among dog names and #927 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Brian?
Among dogs named Brian in these records, the most common breed is Yorkshire Terrier.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); Burnside Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); 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.