Nicholas
How many real pets are named Nicholas, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Nicholas as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 43 pets are named Nicholas: 40 dogs, 3 cats. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #1,724 among dog names and #2,935 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Nicholas
Dogs
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Nicholas
- New York City: 26licensed
- Austin shelter: 10shelter
- Seattle: 2licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 2licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 2shelter
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
Nicholas as a human name
This is the meaning of Nicholas as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Ancient Greek, notably born by St. Nicholas of Myre, on whom Father Christmas is based.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Nicholas
Dog names about as popular as Nicholas
Nicholas FAQ
How many pets are named Nicholas?
In the public pet records we track, 43 pets are named Nicholas: 40 dogs, 3 cats. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #1,724 among dog names and #2,935 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Nicholas?
Among dogs named Nicholas in these records, the most common breed is Chihuahua.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); Dogs of Cambridge (ODC PDDL); 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.