Lincoln
How many real pets are named Lincoln, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Lincoln as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 175 pets are named Lincoln: 164 dogs, 11 cats. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #483 among dog names and #973 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Lincoln
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 19
- German Shepherd: 9
- Beagle: 8
- Pit Bull: 7
- Golden Retriever: 6
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Lincoln
- New York City: 122licensed
- Austin shelter: 31shelter
- Seattle: 9licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 5licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 4shelter
- Richmond, VA: 3licensed
- Zurich: 1licensed
Lincoln as a human name
This is the meaning of Lincoln as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name transferred from the surname, of American usage, originally in honor of Abraham Lincoln. Root meaning: “the Roman settlement Lindum Colonia”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Lincoln
Dog names about as popular as Lincoln
Lincoln FAQ
How many pets are named Lincoln?
In the public pet records we track, 175 pets are named Lincoln: 164 dogs, 11 cats. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #483 among dog names and #973 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Lincoln?
Among dogs named Lincoln 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.