Cara
How many real pets are named Cara, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Cara as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 60 pets are named Cara: 55 dogs, 5 cats. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #1,313 among dog names and #1,994 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Cara
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 6
- Standard Poodle: 3
- Maltese: 2
- Terrier: 2
- Chihuahua: 2
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Cara
- New York City: 38licensed
- Austin shelter: 8shelter
- Zurich: 6licensed
- Seattle: 5licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 2licensed
- Burnside (SA): 1licensed
Cara as a human name
This is the meaning of Cara as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name originating as a coinage. Root meaning: “dear”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Cara
Dog names about as popular as Cara
Cara FAQ
How many pets are named Cara?
In the public pet records we track, 60 pets are named Cara: 55 dogs, 5 cats. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #1,313 among dog names and #1,994 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Cara?
Among dogs named Cara 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); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Burnside Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); 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.