Desmond
How many real pets are named Desmond, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Desmond as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 29 pets are named Desmond: 27 dogs, 2 cats. Where sex was recorded, 0% are female and 100% male. It ranks #2,370 among dog names and #3,864 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Desmond
Dogs
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Desmond
- New York City: 13licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 4shelter
- Seattle: 3licensed
- Richmond, VA: 3licensed
- Austin shelter: 3shelter
- Burnside (SA): 2licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 1licensed
Desmond as a human name
This is the meaning of Desmond as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name transferred from the surname; popular in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Desmond
Dog names about as popular as Desmond
Desmond FAQ
How many pets are named Desmond?
In the public pet records we track, 29 pets are named Desmond: 27 dogs, 2 cats. Where sex was recorded, 0% are female and 100% male. It ranks #2,370 among dog names and #3,864 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Desmond?
Among dogs named Desmond in these records, the most common breed is Pit Bull.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); Dogs of Cambridge (ODC PDDL); 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.