Rex
How many real pets are named Rex, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Rex as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 845 pets are named Rex: 807 dogs, 35 cats, 3 others. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #80 among dog names and #293 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Rex
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 84
- German Shepherd: 58
- Yorkshire Terrier: 38
- Labrador Retriever: 36
- Chihuahua: 31
Cats
- Domestic Shorthair: 15
- Domestic Longhair: 2
- Sphynx: 1
- Siamese: 1
- Snowshoe: 1
Others
- Rex: 2
- Lop-Mini: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Rex
- New York City: 497licensed
- Austin shelter: 155shelter
- Toronto: 95licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 31shelter
- Seattle: 27licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 14licensed
- Burnside (SA): 11licensed
- Zurich: 6licensed
- Richmond, VA: 6licensed
- Prospect (SA): 2licensed
- Adelaide: 1licensed
Rex as a human name
This is the meaning of Rex as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Latin coined in the nineteenth century from Latin rex "king," rarely given today. Root meaning: “king”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Rex
Dog names about as popular as Rex
Rex FAQ
How many pets are named Rex?
In the public pet records we track, 845 pets are named Rex: 807 dogs, 35 cats, 3 others. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #80 among dog names and #293 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Rex?
Among dogs named Rex in these records, the most common breed is Pit Bull.
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); Dog Registrations, City of Adelaide (CC BY 3.0 AU); 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.