Duncan
How many real pets are named Duncan, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Duncan as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 209 pets are named Duncan: 189 dogs, 20 cats. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #421 among dog names and #525 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Duncan
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 17
- Pit Bull: 9
- Beagle: 7
- Goldendoodle: 7
- Chihuahua: 6
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Duncan
- New York City: 130licensed
- Austin shelter: 40shelter
- Seattle: 18licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 15licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 4shelter
- Burnside (SA): 1licensed
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
Duncan as a human name
This is the meaning of Duncan as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Scottish Gaelic anglicized from Scottish Gaelic Donnchadh; the name of two early saints and of two kings of Scotland. Root meaning: “brown”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Duncan FAQ
How many pets are named Duncan?
In the public pet records we track, 209 pets are named Duncan: 189 dogs, 20 cats. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #421 among dog names and #525 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Duncan?
Among dogs named Duncan 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); 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.