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Ernie

How many real pets are named Ernie, which animals and breeds have it, and where.

240 real pets#414 dog name#238 cat name9 places

How popular is Ernie as a pet name?

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In the public pet records we track, 240 pets are named Ernie: 194 dogs, 46 cats. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #414 among dog names and #238 among cat names.

Breeds most often named Ernie

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Cats

Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.

Where pets are named Ernie

Ernie as a human name

This is the meaning of Ernie as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.

A diminutive of the male given name Ernest.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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How many pets are named Ernie?

In the public pet records we track, 240 pets are named Ernie: 194 dogs, 46 cats. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #414 among dog names and #238 among cat names.

What breed is most often named Ernie?

Among dogs named Ernie 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); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Dog Registrations, City of Adelaide (CC BY 3.0 AU); 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.