Hector
How many real pets are named Hector, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Hector as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 64 pets are named Hector: 53 dogs, 9 cats, 1 guinea pig, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #1,351 among dog names and #1,233 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Hector
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 7
- Labrador Retriever: 4
- Chihuahua: 4
- German Shepherd: 3
- Beagle: 3
Cats
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 1
Others
- Lop-Holland: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Hector
- New York City: 28licensed
- Austin shelter: 21shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 7shelter
- Seattle: 2licensed
- Zurich: 2licensed
- Burnside (SA): 2licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 1licensed
- Adelaide: 1licensed
Hector as a human name
This is the meaning of Hector as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Ancient Greek. Root meaning: “to hold; to overpower”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Dog names about as popular as Hector
Hector FAQ
How many pets are named Hector?
In the public pet records we track, 64 pets are named Hector: 53 dogs, 9 cats, 1 guinea pig, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #1,351 among dog names and #1,233 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Hector?
Among dogs named Hector 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); 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.