Carter
How many real pets are named Carter, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Carter as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 145 pets are named Carter: 133 dogs, 12 cats. Where sex was recorded, 9% are female and 91% male. It ranks #586 among dog names and #902 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Carter
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 14
- Yorkshire Terrier: 9
- Chihuahua: 9
- Labrador Retriever: 6
- Poodle: 5
Cats
- Domestic Shorthair: 11
- Siamese: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Carter
- New York City: 105licensed
- Austin shelter: 31shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 3shelter
- Seattle: 2licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 2licensed
- Richmond, VA: 2licensed
Carter as a human name
This is the meaning of Carter as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Carter
Dog names about as popular as Carter
Carter FAQ
How many pets are named Carter?
In the public pet records we track, 145 pets are named Carter: 133 dogs, 12 cats. Where sex was recorded, 9% are female and 91% male. It ranks #586 among dog names and #902 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Carter?
Among dogs named Carter in these records, the most common breed is Pit Bull.
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.