Jack
How many real pets are named Jack, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Jack as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 1,826 pets are named Jack: 1,608 dogs, 209 cats, 6 others, 3 rabbits. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #25 among dog names and #12 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Jack
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 119
- Jack Russell Terrier: 106
- Chihuahua: 82
- Yorkshire Terrier: 55
- Shih Tzu: 54
Cats
Rabbits
- Rabbit Sh: 2
- Rabbit Lh: 1
Others
- Californian: 3
- Lop-Amer Fuzzy: 1
- Havana: 1
- Sheep: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Jack
- New York City: 1,010licensed
- Austin shelter: 269shelter
- Toronto: 220licensed
- Seattle: 104licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 82shelter
- Burnside (SA): 43licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 39licensed
- Zurich: 25licensed
- Richmond, VA: 18licensed
- Prospect (SA): 10licensed
- Adelaide: 6licensed
Jack as a human name
This is the meaning of Jack as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A unisex given name derived from a pet form of the name John. Occasionally a diminutive of other given names such as Jackson, Jacob, Jacqueline or Jonathan. Root meaning: “John”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Jack
Dog names about as popular as Jack
Jack FAQ
How many pets are named Jack?
In the public pet records we track, 1,826 pets are named Jack: 1,608 dogs, 209 cats, 6 others, 3 rabbits. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #25 among dog names and #12 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Jack?
Among dogs named Jack 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); 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.