Buster
How many real pets are named Buster, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Buster as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 913 pets are named Buster: 833 dogs, 77 cats, 2 rabbits, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #76 among dog names and #112 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Buster
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 63
- Pit Bull: 43
- Chihuahua: 41
- Shih Tzu: 35
- Yorkshire Terrier: 30
Cats
Rabbits
- Rabbit Sh: 2
Others
- Lionhead: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Buster
- New York City: 543licensed
- Austin shelter: 149shelter
- Toronto: 90licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 65shelter
- Seattle: 33licensed
- Burnside (SA): 15licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 8licensed
- Richmond, VA: 5licensed
- Adelaide: 3licensed
- Zurich: 1licensed
- Prospect (SA): 1licensed
Buster as a human name
This is the meaning of Buster as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Buster
Dog names about as popular as Buster
Buster FAQ
How many pets are named Buster?
In the public pet records we track, 913 pets are named Buster: 833 dogs, 77 cats, 2 rabbits, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #76 among dog names and #112 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Buster?
Among dogs named Buster 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.