Elmer
How many real pets are named Elmer, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Elmer as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 40 pets are named Elmer: 34 dogs, 6 cats. Where sex was recorded, 0% are female and 100% male. It ranks #1,969 among dog names and #1,783 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Elmer
Dogs
- Border Collie: 5
- Chihuahua: 3
- Pit Bull: 3
- Maltese: 2
- German Shepherd: 2
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Elmer
- New York City: 21licensed
- Austin shelter: 14shelter
- Seattle: 4licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 1shelter
Elmer as a human name
This is the meaning of Elmer as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A surname transferred from the given name. Root meaning: “noble”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Elmer
Dog names about as popular as Elmer
Elmer FAQ
How many pets are named Elmer?
In the public pet records we track, 40 pets are named Elmer: 34 dogs, 6 cats. Where sex was recorded, 0% are female and 100% male. It ranks #1,969 among dog names and #1,783 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Elmer?
Among dogs named Elmer in these records, the most common breed is Border Collie.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); 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.