Hank
How many real pets are named Hank, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Hank as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 575 pets are named Hank: 533 dogs, 40 cats, 1 other, 1 bird. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #140 among dog names and #262 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Hank
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 55
- Pit Bull: 31
- Chihuahua: 16
- German Shepherd: 16
- French Bulldog: 12
Cats
Others
- Lop-Mini: 1
Birds
- Chicken: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Hank
- New York City: 285licensed
- Austin shelter: 122shelter
- Toronto: 65licensed
- Seattle: 50licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 28shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 14licensed
- Richmond, VA: 5licensed
- Burnside (SA): 3licensed
- Zurich: 1licensed
- Adelaide: 1licensed
- Prospect (SA): 1licensed
Hank as a human name
This is the meaning of Hank as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the male given name Henry.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Hank
Dog names about as popular as Hank
Hank FAQ
How many pets are named Hank?
In the public pet records we track, 575 pets are named Hank: 533 dogs, 40 cats, 1 other, 1 bird. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #140 among dog names and #262 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Hank?
Among dogs named Hank 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.