Richard
How many real pets are named Richard, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Richard as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 58 pets are named Richard: 49 dogs, 7 cats, 1 other, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 8% are female and 92% male. It ranks #1,446 among dog names and #1,514 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Richard
Dogs
- Chihuahua: 5
- Yorkshire Terrier: 4
- German Shepherd: 3
- Pit Bull: 2
- Hound: 2
Cats
Others
- English Spot: 1
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Richard
- New York City: 33licensed
- Austin shelter: 15shelter
- Seattle: 4licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 4licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 2shelter
Richard as a human name
This is the meaning of Richard as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from the Germanic languages. Root meaning: “king, ruler”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Richard
Dog names about as popular as Richard
Richard FAQ
How many pets are named Richard?
In the public pet records we track, 58 pets are named Richard: 49 dogs, 7 cats, 1 other, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 8% are female and 92% male. It ranks #1,446 among dog names and #1,514 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Richard?
Among dogs named Richard 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); 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.