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How many real pets are named Nelson, which animals and breeds have it, and where.

119 real pets#789 dog name#510 cat name8 places

How popular is Nelson as a pet name?

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In the public pet records we track, 119 pets are named Nelson: 98 dogs, 21 cats. Where sex was recorded, 4% are female and 96% male. It ranks #789 among dog names and #510 among cat names.

Breeds most often named Nelson

Dogs

Cats

Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.

Where pets are named Nelson

Nelson as a human name

This is the meaning of Nelson as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.

A male given name transferred from the surname.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Names similar to Nelson

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How many pets are named Nelson?

In the public pet records we track, 119 pets are named Nelson: 98 dogs, 21 cats. Where sex was recorded, 4% are female and 96% male. It ranks #789 among dog names and #510 among cat names.

What breed is most often named Nelson?

Among dogs named Nelson 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); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Dog Registrations, City of Adelaide (CC BY 3.0 AU); Burnside Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); City of Prospect 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.