Chester
How many real pets are named Chester, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Chester as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 593 pets are named Chester: 511 dogs, 79 cats, 2 rabbits, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #147 among dog names and #107 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Chester
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 32
- Shih Tzu: 24
- Chihuahua: 23
- Poodle: 17
- Beagle: 16
Cats
Rabbits
- Rabbit Sh: 2
Others
- Parrot: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Chester
- New York City: 328licensed
- Toronto: 109licensed
- Austin shelter: 83shelter
- Seattle: 28licensed
- Burnside (SA): 18licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 12shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 6licensed
- Richmond, VA: 4licensed
- Zurich: 2licensed
- Prospect (SA): 2licensed
- Adelaide: 1licensed
Chester as a human name
This is the meaning of Chester as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name transferred from the surname. Root meaning: “a town or city, especially a Roman one”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Chester
Dog names about as popular as Chester
Chester FAQ
How many pets are named Chester?
In the public pet records we track, 593 pets are named Chester: 511 dogs, 79 cats, 2 rabbits, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #147 among dog names and #107 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Chester?
Among dogs named Chester in these records, the most common breed is Labrador Retriever.
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); Dog Registrations, City of Adelaide (CC BY 3.0 AU); 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.