Chris
How many real pets are named Chris, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Chris as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 43 pets are named Chris: 26 dogs, 17 cats. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #2,399 among dog names and #653 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Chris
Dogs
- Chihuahua: 5
- Labrador Retriever: 3
- Maltese: 2
- Yorkshire Terrier: 2
- Shih Tzu: 2
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Chris
- New York City: 20licensed
- Austin shelter: 14shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 8shelter
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
Chris as a human name
This is the meaning of Chris as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the male given names Christopher and (less commonly) Christian.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Chris
Dog names about as popular as Chris
Chris FAQ
How many pets are named Chris?
In the public pet records we track, 43 pets are named Chris: 26 dogs, 17 cats. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #2,399 among dog names and #653 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Chris?
Among dogs named Chris in these records, the most common breed is Chihuahua.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); 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.