Oliver
How many real pets are named Oliver, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Oliver as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 1,876 pets are named Oliver: 1,643 dogs, 231 cats, 1 goat, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #24 among dog names and #10 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Oliver
Dogs
- Shih Tzu: 78
- Yorkshire Terrier: 75
- Labrador Retriever: 74
- Chihuahua: 73
- Cavalier King Charles Spaniel: 58
Cats
Goats
- Goat: 1
Others
- Netherlnd Dwarf: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Oliver
- New York City: 1,217licensed
- Toronto: 210licensed
- Austin shelter: 202shelter
- Seattle: 126licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 46licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 36shelter
- Richmond, VA: 16licensed
- Burnside (SA): 13licensed
- Zurich: 7licensed
- Adelaide: 2licensed
- Prospect (SA): 1licensed
Oliver as a human name
This is the meaning of Oliver as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from the Germanic languages. Root meaning: “ancestral + relic”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Oliver
Dog names about as popular as Oliver
Oliver FAQ
How many pets are named Oliver?
In the public pet records we track, 1,876 pets are named Oliver: 1,643 dogs, 231 cats, 1 goat, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #24 among dog names and #10 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Oliver?
Among dogs named Oliver in these records, the most common breed is Shih Tzu.
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); 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); 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.