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Dexter

How many real pets are named Dexter, which animals and breeds have it, and where.

815 real pets#89 dog name#194 cat name9 places

How popular is Dexter as a pet name?

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In the public pet records we track, 815 pets are named Dexter: 759 dogs, 55 cats, 1 goat. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #89 among dog names and #194 among cat names.

Breeds most often named Dexter

Dogs

Cats

Goats

  • Goat: 1

Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.

Where pets are named Dexter

Dexter as a human name

This is the meaning of Dexter as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.

A male given name transferred from the surname. Root meaning: “right (handed)”.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Names similar to Dexter

Dog names about as popular as Dexter

Dexter FAQ

How many pets are named Dexter?

In the public pet records we track, 815 pets are named Dexter: 759 dogs, 55 cats, 1 goat. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #89 among dog names and #194 among cat names.

What breed is most often named Dexter?

Among dogs named Dexter 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); 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.