Joe
How many real pets are named Joe, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Joe as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 122 pets are named Joe: 99 dogs, 23 cats. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #778 among dog names and #461 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Joe
Dogs
- Chihuahua: 10
- Labrador Retriever: 9
- Shih Tzu: 5
- Pit Bull: 5
- Terrier: 5
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Joe
- New York City: 68licensed
- Austin shelter: 23shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 13shelter
- Zurich: 7licensed
- Seattle: 5licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 3licensed
- Richmond, VA: 3licensed
Joe as a human name
This is the meaning of Joe as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the male given names Joseph, Josiah, Joel, and Josias.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Dog names about as popular as Joe
Joe FAQ
How many pets are named Joe?
In the public pet records we track, 122 pets are named Joe: 99 dogs, 23 cats. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #778 among dog names and #461 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Joe?
Among dogs named Joe 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); Dogs of Cambridge (ODC PDDL); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); 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.