Chance
How many real pets are named Chance, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Chance as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 385 pets are named Chance: 379 dogs, 6 cats. Where sex was recorded, 5% are female and 95% male. It ranks #188 among dog names and #1,681 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Chance
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 47
- Labrador Retriever: 32
- Shih Tzu: 20
- Chihuahua: 16
- German Shepherd: 13
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Chance
- New York City: 283licensed
- Austin shelter: 60shelter
- Seattle: 15licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 13shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 9licensed
- Richmond, VA: 5licensed
Chance as a human name
This is the meaning of Chance as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from English, an American pet form of Chauncey, in modern usage also associated with the word chance.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Chance
Dog names about as popular as Chance
Chance FAQ
How many pets are named Chance?
In the public pet records we track, 385 pets are named Chance: 379 dogs, 6 cats. Where sex was recorded, 5% are female and 95% male. It ranks #188 among dog names and #1,681 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Chance?
Among dogs named Chance 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.