Dirk
How many real pets are named Dirk, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Dirk as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 11 pets are named Dirk: 9 dogs, 2 cats. Where sex was recorded, 0% are female and 100% male. It ranks #4,985 among dog names and #4,248 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Dirk
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 2
- Chihuahua: 1
- Terrier: 1
- Poodle: 1
- Bassett Hound: 1
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Dirk
- New York City: 5licensed
- Austin shelter: 4shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 1licensed
- Zurich: 1licensed
Dirk as a human name
This is the meaning of Dirk as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from German or Dutch, equivalent to English Derek.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Dog names about as popular as Dirk
Dirk FAQ
How many pets are named Dirk?
In the public pet records we track, 11 pets are named Dirk: 9 dogs, 2 cats. Where sex was recorded, 0% are female and 100% male. It ranks #4,985 among dog names and #4,248 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Dirk?
Among dogs named Dirk in these records, the most common breed is Pit Bull.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Dogs of Cambridge (ODC PDDL); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); 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.