Jake
How many real pets are named Jake, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Jake as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 880 pets are named Jake: 815 dogs, 64 cats, 1 rabbit. Where sex was recorded, 0% are female and 100% male. It ranks #79 among dog names and #145 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Jake
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 77
- Shih Tzu: 34
- Pit Bull: 34
- Chihuahua: 30
- German Shepherd: 29
Cats
- Domestic Shorthair: 33
- Domestic Medium Hair: 5
- Laperm: 1
- Maine Coon: 1
- Siamese: 1
Rabbits
- Rabbit Sh: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Jake
- New York City: 510licensed
- Austin shelter: 128shelter
- Toronto: 126licensed
- Seattle: 42licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 36shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 21licensed
- Richmond, VA: 9licensed
- Burnside (SA): 6licensed
- Adelaide: 1licensed
- Prospect (SA): 1licensed
Jake as a human name
This is the meaning of Jake as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Jake
Dog names about as popular as Jake
Jake FAQ
How many pets are named Jake?
In the public pet records we track, 880 pets are named Jake: 815 dogs, 64 cats, 1 rabbit. Where sex was recorded, 0% are female and 100% male. It ranks #79 among dog names and #145 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Jake?
Among dogs named Jake 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); 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.