Hunter
How many real pets are named Hunter, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Hunter as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 651 pets are named Hunter: 607 dogs, 44 cats. Where sex was recorded, 5% are female and 95% male. It ranks #128 among dog names and #249 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Hunter
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 49
- Siberian Husky: 34
- German Shepherd: 32
- Beagle: 27
- Yorkshire Terrier: 18
Cats
- Domestic Shorthair: 18
- Domestic Longhair: 3
- Maine Coon: 2
- Siamese: 2
- Russian Blue: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Hunter
- New York City: 424licensed
- Toronto: 104licensed
- Austin shelter: 64shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 27shelter
- Seattle: 14licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 8licensed
- Burnside (SA): 5licensed
- Richmond, VA: 4licensed
- Zurich: 1licensed
Hunter as a human name
This is the meaning of Hunter as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Hunter
Dog names about as popular as Hunter
Hunter FAQ
How many pets are named Hunter?
In the public pet records we track, 651 pets are named Hunter: 607 dogs, 44 cats. Where sex was recorded, 5% are female and 95% male. It ranks #128 among dog names and #249 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Hunter?
Among dogs named Hunter 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); Licensed Dog and Cat Names, City of Toronto (Open Government Licence – Toronto); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Burnside 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.