Leon
How many real pets are named Leon, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Leon as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 130 pets are named Leon: 118 dogs, 11 cats, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 4% are female and 96% male. It ranks #651 among dog names and #979 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Leon
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 11
- Poodle: 7
- Shih Tzu: 5
- Yorkshire Terrier: 5
- Labrador Retriever: 4
Cats
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Leon
- New York City: 82licensed
- Austin shelter: 19shelter
- Seattle: 14licensed
- Zurich: 8licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 3licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 3shelter
- Burnside (SA): 1licensed
Leon as a human name
This is the meaning of Leon as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Latin or Ancient Greek. Root meaning: “lion”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Leon
Dog names about as popular as Leon
Leon FAQ
How many pets are named Leon?
In the public pet records we track, 130 pets are named Leon: 118 dogs, 11 cats, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 4% are female and 96% male. It ranks #651 among dog names and #979 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Leon?
Among dogs named Leon 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); 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.