Linus
How many real pets are named Linus, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Linus as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 167 pets are named Linus: 139 dogs, 27 cats, 1 rabbit. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #568 among dog names and #392 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Linus
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 12
- Dachshund: 10
- Pit Bull: 7
- Chihuahua: 6
- Poodle: 6
Cats
- Domestic Shorthair: 20
- Domestic Longhair: 1
- Pixie-Bob: 1
- Siberian: 1
- Persian: 1
Rabbits
- Rabbit Sh: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Linus
- New York City: 109licensed
- Austin shelter: 24shelter
- Seattle: 20licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 6shelter
- Richmond, VA: 4licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 3licensed
- Zurich: 1licensed
Linus as a human name
This is the meaning of Linus as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Latin.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Dog names about as popular as Linus
Linus FAQ
How many pets are named Linus?
In the public pet records we track, 167 pets are named Linus: 139 dogs, 27 cats, 1 rabbit. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #568 among dog names and #392 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Linus?
Among dogs named Linus 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.