Erik
How many real pets are named Erik, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Erik as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 8 pets are named Erik: 7 dogs, 1 cat. Where sex was recorded, 0% are female and 100% male. It ranks #5,939 among dog names and #6,484 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Erik
Dogs
- Shih Tzu: 1
- Chihuahua: 1
- Toy Poodle: 1
- Norwegian Elkhound: 1
- Siberian Husky: 1
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Erik
- New York City: 3licensed
- Austin shelter: 2shelter
- Zurich: 1licensed
- Burnside (SA): 1licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 1shelter
Erik as a human name
This is the meaning of Erik as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Old Norse, variant of Eric.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Erik
Dog names about as popular as Erik
Erik FAQ
How many pets are named Erik?
In the public pet records we track, 8 pets are named Erik: 7 dogs, 1 cat. Where sex was recorded, 0% are female and 100% male. It ranks #5,939 among dog names and #6,484 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Erik?
Among dogs named Erik in these records, the most common breed is Shih Tzu.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Burnside Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); 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.