Buck
How many real pets are named Buck, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Buck as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 104 pets are named Buck: 100 dogs, 3 cats, 1 horse. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #777 among dog names and #2,860 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Buck
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 21
- Pit Bull: 15
- Chihuahua: 5
- German Shepherd: 5
- Beagle: 3
Cats
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Buck
- New York City: 54licensed
- Austin shelter: 29shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 9shelter
- Seattle: 7licensed
- Richmond, VA: 4licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 1licensed
Buck as a human name
This is the meaning of Buck as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Old English. Root meaning: “belly”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Buck
Dog names about as popular as Buck
Buck FAQ
How many pets are named Buck?
In the public pet records we track, 104 pets are named Buck: 100 dogs, 3 cats, 1 horse. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #777 among dog names and #2,860 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Buck?
Among dogs named Buck 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); 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.