Preston
How many real pets are named Preston, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Preston as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 59 pets are named Preston: 55 dogs, 4 cats. Where sex was recorded, 0% are female and 100% male. It ranks #1,316 among dog names and #2,368 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Preston
Dogs
- Poodle: 6
- Yorkshire Terrier: 5
- Pit Bull: 4
- Terrier: 3
- Miniature Schnauzer: 3
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Preston
- New York City: 38licensed
- Austin shelter: 16shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 2licensed
- Seattle: 1licensed
- Zurich: 1licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 1shelter
Preston as a human name
This is the meaning of Preston as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name transferred from the surname. Root meaning: “priest”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Preston
Dog names about as popular as Preston
Preston FAQ
How many pets are named Preston?
In the public pet records we track, 59 pets are named Preston: 55 dogs, 4 cats. Where sex was recorded, 0% are female and 100% male. It ranks #1,316 among dog names and #2,368 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Preston?
Among dogs named Preston in these records, the most common breed is Poodle.
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); 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.