Cher
How many real pets are named Cher, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Cher as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 53 pets are named Cher: 39 dogs, 12 cats, 1 other, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 98% are female and 2% male. It ranks #1,742 among dog names and #934 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Cher
Dogs
- Chihuahua: 5
- Yorkshire Terrier: 4
- Shih Tzu: 3
- Pit Bull: 3
- Poodle: 2
Cats
Others
- Havana: 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 Cher
- New York City: 24licensed
- Austin shelter: 14shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 12shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 2licensed
- Zurich: 1licensed
Cher as a human name
This is the meaning of Cher as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A short form of the female given name Cherilyn, popularized as a given name by the singer Cher.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Cher
Dog names about as popular as Cher
Cher FAQ
How many pets are named Cher?
In the public pet records we track, 53 pets are named Cher: 39 dogs, 12 cats, 1 other, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 98% are female and 2% male. It ranks #1,742 among dog names and #934 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Cher?
Among dogs named Cher in these records, the most common breed is Chihuahua.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); 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.