John
How many real pets are named John, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is John as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 95 pets are named John: 70 dogs, 25 cats. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #1,071 among dog names and #423 among cat names.
Breeds most often named John
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 6
- Pit Bull: 6
- Chihuahua: 6
- Poodle: 4
- Shih Tzu: 4
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named John
- New York City: 60licensed
- Austin shelter: 21shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 11shelter
- Zurich: 3licensed
John as a human name
This is the meaning of John as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name originating from the Bible [in turn from Hebrew]; very popular since the Middle Ages.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to John
Dog names about as popular as John
John FAQ
How many pets are named John?
In the public pet records we track, 95 pets are named John: 70 dogs, 25 cats. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #1,071 among dog names and #423 among cat names.
What breed is most often named John?
Among dogs named John in these records, the most common breed is Labrador Retriever.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); 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.