Houston
How many real pets are named Houston, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Houston as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 49 pets are named Houston: 43 dogs, 6 cats. Where sex was recorded, 13% are female and 87% male. It ranks #1,638 among dog names and #1,762 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Houston
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 3
- Shih Tzu: 2
- Pointer: 2
- Labrador Retriever: 2
- Terrier: 2
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Houston
- New York City: 28licensed
- Austin shelter: 12shelter
- Seattle: 4licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 3licensed
- Zurich: 1licensed
- Burnside (SA): 1licensed
Houston as a human name
This is the meaning of Houston as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name transferred from the surname, of mainly American usage.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Houston
Dog names about as popular as Houston
Houston FAQ
How many pets are named Houston?
In the public pet records we track, 49 pets are named Houston: 43 dogs, 6 cats. Where sex was recorded, 13% are female and 87% male. It ranks #1,638 among dog names and #1,762 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Houston?
Among dogs named Houston 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); 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.