Gideon
How many real pets are named Gideon, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Gideon as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 37 pets are named Gideon: 28 dogs, 9 cats. Where sex was recorded, 10% are female and 90% male. It ranks #2,287 among dog names and #1,269 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Gideon
Dogs
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Gideon
- New York City: 20licensed
- Austin shelter: 10shelter
- Seattle: 6licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 1licensed
Gideon as a human name
This is the meaning of Gideon as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Hebrew, popularized by Puritans.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Gideon
Dog names about as popular as Gideon
Gideon FAQ
How many pets are named Gideon?
In the public pet records we track, 37 pets are named Gideon: 28 dogs, 9 cats. Where sex was recorded, 10% are female and 90% male. It ranks #2,287 among dog names and #1,269 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Gideon?
Among dogs named Gideon in these records, the most common breed is Pit Bull.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); Dogs of Cambridge (ODC PDDL); 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.