German
How many real pets are named German, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is German as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 20 pets are named German: 20 dogs. Where sex was recorded, 20% are female and 80% male. It ranks #2,976 among dog names.
Breeds most often named German
Dogs
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named German
- New York City: 20licensed
German as a human name
This is the meaning of German as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Russian. Root meaning: “the peoples of Germānia”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to German
Dog names about as popular as German
German FAQ
How many pets are named German?
In the public pet records we track, 20 pets are named German: 20 dogs. Where sex was recorded, 20% are female and 80% male. It ranks #2,976 among dog names.
What breed is most often named German?
Among dogs named German in these records, the most common breed is German Shepherd.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data). 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.