Hercules
How many real pets are named Hercules, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Hercules as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 327 pets are named Hercules: 314 dogs, 11 cats, 1 other, 1 hamster. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #245 among dog names and #969 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Hercules
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 57
- Chihuahua: 24
- Yorkshire Terrier: 19
- German Shepherd: 17
- Labrador Retriever: 14
Cats
Others
- English Spot: 1
Hamsters
- Hamster: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Hercules
- New York City: 213licensed
- Austin shelter: 77shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 13shelter
- Seattle: 11licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 6licensed
- Burnside (SA): 2licensed
- Richmond, VA: 2licensed
- Zurich: 1licensed
- Adelaide: 1licensed
- Prospect (SA): 1licensed
Hercules as a human name
This is the meaning of Hercules as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Ancient Greek. Root meaning: “year, season”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Hercules
Dog names about as popular as Hercules
Hercules FAQ
How many pets are named Hercules?
In the public pet records we track, 327 pets are named Hercules: 314 dogs, 11 cats, 1 other, 1 hamster. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #245 among dog names and #969 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Hercules?
Among dogs named Hercules 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); 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.