James
How many real pets are named James, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is James as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 138 pets are named James: 103 dogs, 35 cats. Where sex was recorded, 4% are female and 96% male. It ranks #747 among dog names and #298 among cat names.
Breeds most often named James
Dogs
- Chihuahua: 7
- Labrador Retriever: 7
- Pit Bull: 6
- Beagle: 5
- Yorkshire Terrier: 5
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named James
- New York City: 74licensed
- Austin shelter: 31shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 19shelter
- Seattle: 6licensed
- Zurich: 6licensed
- Burnside (SA): 1licensed
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
James as a human name
This is the meaning of James as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Hebrew popular since the Middle Ages. Also a common middle name.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to James
Dog names about as popular as James
James FAQ
How many pets are named James?
In the public pet records we track, 138 pets are named James: 103 dogs, 35 cats. Where sex was recorded, 4% are female and 96% male. It ranks #747 among dog names and #298 among cat names.
What breed is most often named James?
Among dogs named James in these records, the most common breed is Chihuahua.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); 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.