Josie
How many real pets are named Josie, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Josie as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 343 pets are named Josie: 318 dogs, 25 cats. Where sex was recorded, 99% are female and 1% male. It ranks #238 among dog names and #410 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Josie
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 26
- Chihuahua: 19
- German Shepherd: 14
- Beagle: 10
- Terrier: 10
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Josie
- New York City: 206licensed
- Seattle: 49licensed
- Austin shelter: 46shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 23licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 13shelter
- Richmond, VA: 4licensed
- Zurich: 2licensed
Josie as a human name
This is the meaning of Josie as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the female given name Josephine.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Josie
Dog names about as popular as Josie
Josie FAQ
How many pets are named Josie?
In the public pet records we track, 343 pets are named Josie: 318 dogs, 25 cats. Where sex was recorded, 99% are female and 1% male. It ranks #238 among dog names and #410 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Josie?
Among dogs named Josie in these records, the most common breed is Labrador Retriever.
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.