Rufus
How many real pets are named Rufus, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Rufus as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 461 pets are named Rufus: 429 dogs, 31 cats, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #168 among dog names and #326 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Rufus
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 25
- Labrador Retriever: 19
- Chihuahua: 17
- German Shepherd: 11
- Golden Retriever: 10
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 Rufus
- New York City: 245licensed
- Toronto: 65licensed
- Austin shelter: 56shelter
- Seattle: 36licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 18licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 18shelter
- Burnside (SA): 14licensed
- Richmond, VA: 4licensed
- Zurich: 2licensed
- Adelaide: 2licensed
- Prospect (SA): 1licensed
Rufus as a human name
This is the meaning of Rufus as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Latin, used since the seventeenth century. Root meaning: “red”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Rufus
Dog names about as popular as Rufus
Rufus FAQ
How many pets are named Rufus?
In the public pet records we track, 461 pets are named Rufus: 429 dogs, 31 cats, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #168 among dog names and #326 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Rufus?
Among dogs named Rufus 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.