Ernest
How many real pets are named Ernest, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Ernest as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 39 pets are named Ernest: 33 dogs, 5 cats, 1 rabbit. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #2,009 among dog names and #2,050 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Ernest
Dogs
Cats
Rabbits
- Rabbit Sh: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Ernest
- New York City: 27licensed
- Austin shelter: 8shelter
- Seattle: 3licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 1licensed
Ernest as a human name
This is the meaning of Ernest as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from the Germanic languages; popular in the 19th century. Root meaning: “vigor, strife”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Ernest
Dog names about as popular as Ernest
Ernest FAQ
How many pets are named Ernest?
In the public pet records we track, 39 pets are named Ernest: 33 dogs, 5 cats, 1 rabbit. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #2,009 among dog names and #2,050 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Ernest?
Among dogs named Ernest in these records, the most common breed is Shih Tzu.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); Dogs of Cambridge (ODC PDDL); 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.