King
How many real pets are named King, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is King as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 1,042 pets are named King: 1,035 dogs, 7 cats. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #54 among dog names and #1,450 among cat names.
Breeds most often named King
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 230
- Yorkshire Terrier: 81
- German Shepherd: 54
- Shih Tzu: 45
- Labrador Retriever: 38
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named King
- New York City: 771licensed
- Austin shelter: 163shelter
- Toronto: 53licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 31shelter
- Seattle: 11licensed
- Richmond, VA: 5licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 3licensed
- Zurich: 3licensed
- Burnside (SA): 1licensed
- Prospect (SA): 1licensed
Names similar to King
Dog names about as popular as King
King FAQ
How many pets are named King?
In the public pet records we track, 1,042 pets are named King: 1,035 dogs, 7 cats. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #54 among dog names and #1,450 among cat names.
What breed is most often named King?
Among dogs named King in these records, the most common breed is Pit Bull.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); Dogs of Cambridge (ODC PDDL); Licensed Dog and Cat Names, City of Toronto (Open Government Licence – Toronto); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Burnside Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); City of Prospect Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); 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.