Buddy
How many real pets are named Buddy, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Buddy as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 2,587 pets are named Buddy: 2,444 dogs, 139 cats, 3 others, 1 bird. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #12 among dog names and #33 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Buddy
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 187
- Chihuahua: 124
- Shih Tzu: 121
- Pit Bull: 104
- Yorkshire Terrier: 98
Cats
Others
- Rex: 1
- Parakeet: 1
- Lop-Holland: 1
Birds
- Chicken: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Buddy
- New York City: 1,534licensed
- Austin shelter: 354shelter
- Toronto: 337licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 130shelter
- Seattle: 113licensed
- Burnside (SA): 36licensed
- Richmond, VA: 32licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 25licensed
- Zurich: 20licensed
- Prospect (SA): 5licensed
- Adelaide: 1licensed
Buddy as a human name
This is the meaning of Buddy as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from English.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Buddy
Dog names about as popular as Buddy
Buddy FAQ
How many pets are named Buddy?
In the public pet records we track, 2,587 pets are named Buddy: 2,444 dogs, 139 cats, 3 others, 1 bird. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #12 among dog names and #33 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Buddy?
Among dogs named Buddy 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); 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.