Foster
How many real pets are named Foster, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Foster as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 42 pets are named Foster: 39 dogs, 3 cats. Where sex was recorded, 18% are female and 82% male. It ranks #1,766 among dog names and #2,939 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Foster
Dogs
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Foster
- New York City: 34licensed
- Austin shelter: 4shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 2shelter
- Seattle: 1licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 1licensed
Foster as a human name
This is the meaning of Foster as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Dog names about as popular as Foster
Foster FAQ
How many pets are named Foster?
In the public pet records we track, 42 pets are named Foster: 39 dogs, 3 cats. Where sex was recorded, 18% are female and 82% male. It ranks #1,766 among dog names and #2,939 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Foster?
Among dogs named Foster 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); 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.