Hero
How many real pets are named Hero, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Hero as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 92 pets are named Hero: 87 dogs, 5 cats. Where sex was recorded, 13% are female and 87% male. It ranks #890 among dog names and #1,964 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Hero
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 10
- Chihuahua: 6
- German Shepherd: 6
- Siberian Husky: 4
- Terrier: 4
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Hero
- New York City: 53licensed
- Austin shelter: 20shelter
- Seattle: 6licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 5licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 4shelter
- Zurich: 3licensed
- Prospect (SA): 1licensed
Hero as a human name
This is the meaning of Hero as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from Ancient Greek of English-speakers.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Hero
Dog names about as popular as Hero
Hero FAQ
How many pets are named Hero?
In the public pet records we track, 92 pets are named Hero: 87 dogs, 5 cats. Where sex was recorded, 13% are female and 87% male. It ranks #890 among dog names and #1,964 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Hero?
Among dogs named Hero 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); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); City of Prospect 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.