Howard
How many real pets are named Howard, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Howard as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 48 pets are named Howard: 36 dogs, 12 cats. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #1,885 among dog names and #936 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Howard
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 3
- Pomeranian: 2
- Pug: 2
- Australian Cattle Dog: 2
- Pit Bull: 2
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Howard
- New York City: 20licensed
- Austin shelter: 18shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 4shelter
- Seattle: 3licensed
- Richmond, VA: 2licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 1licensed
Howard as a human name
This is the meaning of Howard as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from the Germanic languages, transferred back from the surname. Short form: Howie. Root meaning: “high”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Howard FAQ
How many pets are named Howard?
In the public pet records we track, 48 pets are named Howard: 36 dogs, 12 cats. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #1,885 among dog names and #936 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Howard?
Among dogs named Howard 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); 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.