Oscar
How many real pets are named Oscar, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Oscar as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 1,246 pets are named Oscar: 1,084 dogs, 157 cats, 4 others, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #49 among dog names and #25 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Oscar
Dogs
- Shih Tzu: 57
- Labrador Retriever: 47
- Maltese: 46
- Dachshund: 40
- Chihuahua: 38
Cats
- Domestic Shorthair: 76
- Domestic Medium Hair: 11
- Domestic Longhair: 7
- Maine Coon: 4
- American Shorthair: 2
Others
- Cold Water: 2
- Lop-English: 1
- Californian: 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 Oscar
- New York City: 669licensed
- Toronto: 222licensed
- Austin shelter: 124shelter
- Seattle: 83licensed
- Burnside (SA): 53licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 29shelter
- Zurich: 18licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 16licensed
- Richmond, VA: 14licensed
- Adelaide: 9licensed
- Prospect (SA): 9licensed
Oscar as a human name
This is the meaning of Oscar as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Irish or Old English. Root meaning: “deer”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Dog names about as popular as Oscar
Oscar FAQ
How many pets are named Oscar?
In the public pet records we track, 1,246 pets are named Oscar: 1,084 dogs, 157 cats, 4 others, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #49 among dog names and #25 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Oscar?
Among dogs named Oscar 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.