Edgar
How many real pets are named Edgar, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Edgar as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 83 pets are named Edgar: 63 dogs, 19 cats, 1 ferret. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #1,164 among dog names and #565 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Edgar
Dogs
Cats
Ferrets
- Ferret: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Edgar
- New York City: 33licensed
- Austin shelter: 21shelter
- Seattle: 17licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 5shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 4licensed
- Richmond, VA: 2licensed
- Burnside (SA): 1licensed
Edgar as a human name
This is the meaning of Edgar as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Old English. Root meaning: “rich”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Dog names about as popular as Edgar
Edgar FAQ
How many pets are named Edgar?
In the public pet records we track, 83 pets are named Edgar: 63 dogs, 19 cats, 1 ferret. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #1,164 among dog names and #565 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Edgar?
Among dogs named Edgar 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.