Pete
How many real pets are named Pete, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Pete as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 194 pets are named Pete: 172 dogs, 21 cats, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #463 among dog names and #504 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Pete
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 22
- Chihuahua: 13
- Pit Bull: 11
- Yorkshire Terrier: 5
- Dachshund: 4
Cats
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Pete
- New York City: 105licensed
- Austin shelter: 59shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 10shelter
- Seattle: 9licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 5licensed
- Zurich: 2licensed
- Burnside (SA): 2licensed
- Richmond, VA: 2licensed
Pete as a human name
This is the meaning of Pete as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the male given name Peter.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Pete
Dog names about as popular as Pete
Pete FAQ
How many pets are named Pete?
In the public pet records we track, 194 pets are named Pete: 172 dogs, 21 cats, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #463 among dog names and #504 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Pete?
Among dogs named Pete 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); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Burnside 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.