Gordon
How many real pets are named Gordon, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Gordon as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 78 pets are named Gordon: 64 dogs, 14 cats. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #1,149 among dog names and #778 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Gordon
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 9
- Pit Bull: 6
- Chihuahua: 3
- Beagle: 3
- Maltese: 3
Cats
- Domestic Shorthair: 13
- Persian: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Gordon
- New York City: 46licensed
- Austin shelter: 18shelter
- Seattle: 6licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 3licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 2shelter
- Zurich: 1licensed
- Adelaide: 1licensed
- Burnside (SA): 1licensed
Gordon as a human name
This is the meaning of Gordon as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name transferred from the surname. Root meaning: “spacious”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Gordon
Dog names about as popular as Gordon
Gordon FAQ
How many pets are named Gordon?
In the public pet records we track, 78 pets are named Gordon: 64 dogs, 14 cats. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #1,149 among dog names and #778 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Gordon?
Among dogs named Gordon 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); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Dog Registrations, City of Adelaide (CC BY 3.0 AU); Burnside Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); 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.