Oswald
How many real pets are named Oswald, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Oswald as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 28 pets are named Oswald: 23 dogs, 5 cats. Where sex was recorded, 4% are female and 96% male. It ranks #2,650 among dog names and #2,107 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Oswald
Dogs
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Oswald
- New York City: 21licensed
- Austin shelter: 4shelter
- Seattle: 1licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 1licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 1shelter
Oswald as a human name
This is the meaning of Oswald as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Old English. Root meaning: “god, deity”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Dog names about as popular as Oswald
Oswald FAQ
How many pets are named Oswald?
In the public pet records we track, 28 pets are named Oswald: 23 dogs, 5 cats. Where sex was recorded, 4% are female and 96% male. It ranks #2,650 among dog names and #2,107 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Oswald?
Among dogs named Oswald in these records, the most common breed is Dachshund, Long Haired Miniature.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); Dogs of Cambridge (ODC PDDL); 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.