Casper
How many real pets are named Casper, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Casper as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 476 pets are named Casper: 404 dogs, 71 cats, 1 rabbit. Where sex was recorded, 4% are female and 96% male. It ranks #176 among dog names and #126 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Casper
Dogs
- Maltese: 56
- Chihuahua: 21
- Pit Bull: 18
- Labrador Retriever: 17
- Shih Tzu: 12
Cats
Rabbits
- Rabbit Sh: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Casper
- New York City: 272licensed
- Austin shelter: 72shelter
- Toronto: 67licensed
- Seattle: 27licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 19shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 10licensed
- Burnside (SA): 5licensed
- Zurich: 2licensed
- Prospect (SA): 1licensed
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
Casper as a human name
This is the meaning of Casper as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Old Persian, of occasional usage, variant of Caspar.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Casper
Dog names about as popular as Casper
Casper FAQ
How many pets are named Casper?
In the public pet records we track, 476 pets are named Casper: 404 dogs, 71 cats, 1 rabbit. Where sex was recorded, 4% are female and 96% male. It ranks #176 among dog names and #126 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Casper?
Among dogs named Casper in these records, the most common breed is Maltese.
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); 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.