Dash
How many real pets are named Dash, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Dash as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 278 pets are named Dash: 256 dogs, 20 cats, 1 guinea pig, 1 hamster. Where sex was recorded, 10% are female and 90% male. It ranks #306 among dog names and #520 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Dash
Dogs
- Yorkshire Terrier: 20
- Shih Tzu: 17
- Dachshund: 14
- Labrador Retriever: 13
- Chihuahua: 11
Cats
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 1
Hamsters
- Hamster: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Dash
- New York City: 198licensed
- Austin shelter: 37shelter
- Seattle: 23licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 10shelter
- Richmond, VA: 4licensed
- Zurich: 3licensed
- Burnside (SA): 3licensed
Dash as a human name
This is the meaning of Dash as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Dash
Dog names about as popular as Dash
Dash FAQ
How many pets are named Dash?
In the public pet records we track, 278 pets are named Dash: 256 dogs, 20 cats, 1 guinea pig, 1 hamster. Where sex was recorded, 10% are female and 90% male. It ranks #306 among dog names and #520 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Dash?
Among dogs named Dash 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); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Burnside 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.