Jacob
How many real pets are named Jacob, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Jacob as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 138 pets are named Jacob: 126 dogs, 11 cats, 1 rabbit. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #618 among dog names and #977 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Jacob
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 11
- Maltese: 10
- Pit Bull: 10
- Yorkshire Terrier: 10
- Siberian Husky: 10
Cats
Rabbits
- Rabbit Sh: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Jacob
- New York City: 97licensed
- Austin shelter: 25shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 7shelter
- Seattle: 4licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 4licensed
- Prospect (SA): 1licensed
Jacob as a human name
This is the meaning of Jacob as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Hebrew.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Jacob FAQ
How many pets are named Jacob?
In the public pet records we track, 138 pets are named Jacob: 126 dogs, 11 cats, 1 rabbit. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #618 among dog names and #977 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Jacob?
Among dogs named Jacob 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); 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.