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Gus

How many real pets are named Gus, which animals and breeds have it, and where.

834 real pets#88 dog name#129 cat name11 places

How popular is Gus as a pet name?

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In the public pet records we track, 834 pets are named Gus: 763 dogs, 70 cats, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #88 among dog names and #129 among cat names.

Breeds most often named Gus

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  • English Spot: 1

Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.

Where pets are named Gus

Gus as a human name

This is the meaning of Gus as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.

A diminutive of the male given name Augustus.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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How many pets are named Gus?

In the public pet records we track, 834 pets are named Gus: 763 dogs, 70 cats, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #88 among dog names and #129 among cat names.

What breed is most often named Gus?

Among dogs named Gus 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); Licensed Dog and Cat Names, City of Toronto (Open Government Licence – Toronto); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Dog Registrations, City of Adelaide (CC BY 3.0 AU); Burnside Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); City of Prospect 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.