Carl
How many real pets are named Carl, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Carl as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 101 pets are named Carl: 76 dogs, 23 cats, 1 other, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #999 among dog names and #464 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Carl
Dogs
- Boxer: 6
- Shih Tzu: 5
- Labrador Retriever: 4
- Australian Cattle Dog: 4
- Pit Bull: 3
Cats
Others
- Lop-Amer Fuzzy: 1
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Carl
- New York City: 49licensed
- Austin shelter: 24shelter
- Seattle: 16licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 8shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 3licensed
- Zurich: 1licensed
Carl as a human name
This is the meaning of Carl as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Charles.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Carl
Dog names about as popular as Carl
Carl FAQ
How many pets are named Carl?
In the public pet records we track, 101 pets are named Carl: 76 dogs, 23 cats, 1 other, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #999 among dog names and #464 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Carl?
Among dogs named Carl in these records, the most common breed is Boxer.
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); 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.