Hal
How many real pets are named Hal, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Hal as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 15 pets are named Hal: 13 dogs, 2 cats. Where sex was recorded, 7% are female and 93% male. It ranks #3,946 among dog names and #4,101 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Hal
Dogs
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Hal
- New York City: 9licensed
- Austin shelter: 4shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 1licensed
- Burnside (SA): 1licensed
Hal as a human name
This is the meaning of Hal as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the male given names Henry, Harold and Harry.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Hal
Dog names about as popular as Hal
Hal FAQ
How many pets are named Hal?
In the public pet records we track, 15 pets are named Hal: 13 dogs, 2 cats. Where sex was recorded, 7% are female and 93% male. It ranks #3,946 among dog names and #4,101 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Hal?
Among dogs named Hal in these records, the most common breed is Border Collie.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Dogs of Cambridge (ODC PDDL); Burnside Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); 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.