Peanut
How many real pets are named Peanut, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Peanut as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 996 pets are named Peanut: 891 dogs, 100 cats, 2 hamsters, 2 guinea pigs, 1 goat. Where sex was recorded, 38% are female and 62% male. It ranks #68 among dog names and #66 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Peanut
Dogs
- Chihuahua: 157
- Yorkshire Terrier: 60
- Shih Tzu: 39
- Pit Bull: 29
- Dachshund: 29
Cats
Goats
- Miniature: 1
Hamsters
- Hamster: 2
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 2
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Peanut
- New York City: 607licensed
- Austin shelter: 171shelter
- Toronto: 94licensed
- Seattle: 49licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 39shelter
- Zurich: 14licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 11licensed
- Richmond, VA: 8licensed
- Burnside (SA): 2licensed
- Prospect (SA): 1licensed
Names similar to Peanut
Dog names about as popular as Peanut
Peanut FAQ
How many pets are named Peanut?
In the public pet records we track, 996 pets are named Peanut: 891 dogs, 100 cats, 2 hamsters, 2 guinea pigs, 1 goat. Where sex was recorded, 38% are female and 62% male. It ranks #68 among dog names and #66 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Peanut?
Among dogs named Peanut 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); 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.