Chip
How many real pets are named Chip, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Chip as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 341 pets are named Chip: 313 dogs, 26 cats, 2 guinea pigs. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #246 among dog names and #400 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Chip
Dogs
- Yorkshire Terrier: 41
- Chihuahua: 31
- Shih Tzu: 19
- Labrador Retriever: 18
- Pit Bull: 13
Cats
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 2
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Chip
- New York City: 232licensed
- Austin shelter: 58shelter
- Seattle: 27licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 12shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 4licensed
- Zurich: 3licensed
- Burnside (SA): 2licensed
- Richmond, VA: 2licensed
- Prospect (SA): 1licensed
Chip as a human name
This is the meaning of Chip as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the male given names Christopher and Charles.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Chip
Dog names about as popular as Chip
Chip FAQ
How many pets are named Chip?
In the public pet records we track, 341 pets are named Chip: 313 dogs, 26 cats, 2 guinea pigs. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #246 among dog names and #400 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Chip?
Among dogs named Chip in these records, the most common breed is Yorkshire Terrier.
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); 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.