Josh
How many real pets are named Josh, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Josh as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 39 pets are named Josh: 36 dogs, 3 cats. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #1,899 among dog names and #2,955 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Josh
Dogs
- Beagle: 4
- Labrador Retriever: 3
- Chihuahua: 2
- Poodle: 2
- Shepard: 2
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Josh
- New York City: 22licensed
- Austin shelter: 13shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 1licensed
- Zurich: 1licensed
- Burnside (SA): 1licensed
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
Josh as a human name
This is the meaning of Josh as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the male given name Joshua.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Josh
Dog names about as popular as Josh
Josh FAQ
How many pets are named Josh?
In the public pet records we track, 39 pets are named Josh: 36 dogs, 3 cats. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #1,899 among dog names and #2,955 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Josh?
Among dogs named Josh in these records, the most common breed is Beagle.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Dogs of Cambridge (ODC PDDL); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Burnside Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); Pet Licenses, City of Richmond; 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.