Mac
How many real pets are named Mac, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Mac as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 286 pets are named Mac: 255 dogs, 30 cats, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 5% are female and 95% male. It ranks #307 among dog names and #343 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Mac
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 26
- Pit Bull: 21
- German Shepherd: 12
- Chihuahua: 9
- Goldendoodle: 7
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 Mac
- New York City: 170licensed
- Austin shelter: 51shelter
- Seattle: 22licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 20shelter
- Richmond, VA: 9licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 7licensed
- Burnside (SA): 4licensed
- Zurich: 2licensed
- Prospect (SA): 1licensed
Mac as a human name
This is the meaning of Mac as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the male given name Max.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Dog names about as popular as Mac
Mac FAQ
How many pets are named Mac?
In the public pet records we track, 286 pets are named Mac: 255 dogs, 30 cats, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 5% are female and 95% male. It ranks #307 among dog names and #343 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Mac?
Among dogs named Mac 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); 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.