Knox
How many real pets are named Knox, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Knox as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 54 pets are named Knox: 52 dogs, 1 cat, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #1,392 among dog names and #5,552 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Knox
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Cats
Others
- New Zealand Wht: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Knox
- New York City: 31licensed
- Austin shelter: 12shelter
- Seattle: 4licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 3licensed
- Zurich: 1licensed
- Burnside (SA): 1licensed
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 1shelter
Knox as a human name
This is the meaning of Knox as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from the surname. Root meaning: “round hill”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Dog names about as popular as Knox
Knox FAQ
How many pets are named Knox?
In the public pet records we track, 54 pets are named Knox: 52 dogs, 1 cat, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #1,392 among dog names and #5,552 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Knox?
Among dogs named Knox in these records, the most common breed is German Shepherd.
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); 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.