Rupert
How many real pets are named Rupert, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Rupert as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 153 pets are named Rupert: 126 dogs, 27 cats. Where sex was recorded, 0% are female and 100% male. It ranks #615 among dog names and #393 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Rupert
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 11
- Chihuahua: 10
- Dachshund: 5
- Shih Tzu: 4
- Australian Shepherd: 4
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Rupert
- New York City: 82licensed
- Austin shelter: 20shelter
- Toronto: 13licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 11shelter
- Seattle: 9licensed
- Burnside (SA): 9licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 5licensed
- Adelaide: 3licensed
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
Rupert as a human name
This is the meaning of Rupert as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from the Germanic languages.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Dog names about as popular as Rupert
Rupert FAQ
How many pets are named Rupert?
In the public pet records we track, 153 pets are named Rupert: 126 dogs, 27 cats. Where sex was recorded, 0% are female and 100% male. It ranks #615 among dog names and #393 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Rupert?
Among dogs named Rupert 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); Licensed Dog and Cat Names, City of Toronto (Open Government Licence – Toronto); Dog Registrations, City of Adelaide (CC BY 3.0 AU); 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.