Fred
How many real pets are named Fred, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Fred as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 304 pets are named Fred: 238 dogs, 63 cats, 2 guinea pigs, 1 bird. Where sex was recorded, 4% are female and 96% male. It ranks #336 among dog names and #156 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Fred
Dogs
- Chihuahua: 16
- Labrador Retriever: 15
- Terrier: 9
- Maltese: 8
- Shih Tzu: 8
Cats
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 2
Birds
- Cockatiel: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Fred
- New York City: 167licensed
- Austin shelter: 60shelter
- Seattle: 22licensed
- Toronto: 16licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 13shelter
- Burnside (SA): 11licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 9licensed
- Zurich: 3licensed
- Richmond, VA: 3licensed
Fred as a human name
This is the meaning of Fred as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A short version of Frederick, Alfred, or Wilfred, also used as a formal male given name.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Dog names about as popular as Fred
Fred FAQ
How many pets are named Fred?
In the public pet records we track, 304 pets are named Fred: 238 dogs, 63 cats, 2 guinea pigs, 1 bird. Where sex was recorded, 4% are female and 96% male. It ranks #336 among dog names and #156 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Fred?
Among dogs named Fred in these records, the most common breed is Chihuahua.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); Dogs of Cambridge (ODC PDDL); Licensed Dog and Cat Names, City of Toronto (Open Government Licence – Toronto); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); 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.