Otis
How many real pets are named Otis, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Otis as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 702 pets are named Otis: 658 dogs, 43 cats, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #106 among dog names and #251 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Otis
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 47
- Pit Bull: 33
- French Bulldog: 21
- Terrier: 18
- Chihuahua: 17
Cats
Others
- Californian: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Otis
- New York City: 430licensed
- Toronto: 87licensed
- Seattle: 59licensed
- Austin shelter: 57shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 33licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 15shelter
- Richmond, VA: 14licensed
- Zurich: 4licensed
- Burnside (SA): 2licensed
- Prospect (SA): 1licensed
Otis as a human name
This is the meaning of Otis as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A surname transferred from the given name, notably of the American revolutionary hero James Otis and the innovator and industrialist Elisha Otis.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Dog names about as popular as Otis
Otis FAQ
How many pets are named Otis?
In the public pet records we track, 702 pets are named Otis: 658 dogs, 43 cats, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #106 among dog names and #251 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Otis?
Among dogs named Otis in these records, the most common breed is Labrador Retriever.
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); 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.