Joseph
How many real pets are named Joseph, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Joseph as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 39 pets are named Joseph: 35 dogs, 3 cats, 1 rabbit. Where sex was recorded, 16% are female and 84% male. It ranks #1,942 among dog names and #2,961 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Joseph
Dogs
- Shih Tzu: 4
- Maltese: 3
- Poodle: 3
- Bichon Frise: 2
- Dachshund: 2
Cats
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Joseph
- New York City: 23licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 5shelter
- Austin shelter: 5shelter
- Seattle: 2licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 2licensed
- Zurich: 1licensed
- Burnside (SA): 1licensed
Joseph as a human name
This is the meaning of Joseph as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Hebrew. Root meaning: “one whose chastity is above temptation”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Joseph
Dog names about as popular as Joseph
Joseph FAQ
How many pets are named Joseph?
In the public pet records we track, 39 pets are named Joseph: 35 dogs, 3 cats, 1 rabbit. Where sex was recorded, 16% are female and 84% male. It ranks #1,942 among dog names and #2,961 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Joseph?
Among dogs named Joseph in these records, the most common breed is Shih Tzu.
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); Burnside 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.