Franklin
How many real pets are named Franklin, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Franklin as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 350 pets are named Franklin: 314 dogs, 34 cats, 1 rabbit, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 4% are female and 96% male. It ranks #244 among dog names and #300 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Franklin
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 18
- Yorkshire Terrier: 14
- Pug: 12
- Poodle: 11
- Chihuahua: 11
Cats
Rabbits
- Rabbit Sh: 1
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Franklin
- New York City: 241licensed
- Austin shelter: 56shelter
- Seattle: 34licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 12licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 4shelter
- Richmond, VA: 3licensed
Franklin as a human name
This is the meaning of Franklin as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name transferred from the surname, partly in honor of Benjamin Franklin. Root meaning: “freeholder”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Franklin FAQ
How many pets are named Franklin?
In the public pet records we track, 350 pets are named Franklin: 314 dogs, 34 cats, 1 rabbit, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 4% are female and 96% male. It ranks #244 among dog names and #300 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Franklin?
Among dogs named Franklin 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); 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.