Charles
How many real pets are named Charles, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Charles as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 174 pets are named Charles: 146 dogs, 21 cats, 3 others, 3 rabbits, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #535 among dog names and #505 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Charles
Dogs
- Chihuahua: 11
- Pit Bull: 10
- Labrador Retriever: 10
- Cavalier King Charles Spaniel: 8
- Beagle: 5
Cats
Others
- Macaw: 1
- Hedgehog: 1
- Lionhead: 1
Rabbits
- Rabbit Sh: 2
- Rabbit Lh: 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 Charles
- New York City: 119licensed
- Austin shelter: 31shelter
- Seattle: 11licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 9shelter
- Zurich: 2licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 1licensed
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
Charles as a human name
This is the meaning of Charles as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from the Germanic languages. Root meaning: “free man”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Charles FAQ
How many pets are named Charles?
In the public pet records we track, 174 pets are named Charles: 146 dogs, 21 cats, 3 others, 3 rabbits, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #535 among dog names and #505 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Charles?
Among dogs named Charles in these records, the most common breed is Chihuahua.
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); 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.