Fergus
How many real pets are named Fergus, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Fergus as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 103 pets are named Fergus: 87 dogs, 15 cats, 1 rabbit. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #884 among dog names and #718 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Fergus
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 5
- Chihuahua: 5
- Terrier: 5
- Scottish Terrier: 4
- Havanese: 3
Cats
Rabbits
- Rabbit Sh: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Fergus
- New York City: 39licensed
- Seattle: 20licensed
- Austin shelter: 20shelter
- Burnside (SA): 9licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 7licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 5shelter
- Prospect (SA): 2licensed
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
Fergus as a human name
This is the meaning of Fergus as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Scottish Gaelic. Root meaning: “true”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Fergus
Dog names about as popular as Fergus
Fergus FAQ
How many pets are named Fergus?
In the public pet records we track, 103 pets are named Fergus: 87 dogs, 15 cats, 1 rabbit. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #884 among dog names and #718 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Fergus?
Among dogs named Fergus 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); City of Prospect 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.