Nugget
How many real pets are named Nugget, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Nugget as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 325 pets are named Nugget: 295 dogs, 24 cats, 4 others, 1 ferret, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 36% are female and 64% male. It ranks #256 among dog names and #430 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Nugget
Dogs
- Chihuahua: 28
- Shih Tzu: 21
- Labrador Retriever: 15
- Yorkshire Terrier: 11
- Poodle: 11
Cats
Ferrets
- Ferret: 1
Others
- Californian: 2
- English Spot: 1
- Angora-French: 1
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Nugget
- New York City: 191licensed
- Austin shelter: 60shelter
- Toronto: 38licensed
- Seattle: 20licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 6licensed
- Richmond, VA: 5licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 3shelter
- Zurich: 1licensed
- Burnside (SA): 1licensed
Dog names about as popular as Nugget
Nugget FAQ
How many pets are named Nugget?
In the public pet records we track, 325 pets are named Nugget: 295 dogs, 24 cats, 4 others, 1 ferret, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 36% are female and 64% male. It ranks #256 among dog names and #430 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Nugget?
Among dogs named Nugget 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); Licensed Dog and Cat Names, City of Toronto (Open Government Licence – Toronto); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Burnside 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.