Ruth
How many real pets are named Ruth, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Ruth as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 106 pets are named Ruth: 95 dogs, 11 cats. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #811 among dog names and #984 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Ruth
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 18
- Chihuahua: 6
- German Shepherd: 5
- Rat Terrier: 3
- Poodle: 3
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Ruth
- New York City: 64licensed
- Austin shelter: 19shelter
- Seattle: 11licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 9licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 2shelter
- Zurich: 1licensed
Ruth as a human name
This is the meaning of Ruth as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from Hebrew. Root meaning: “compassion”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Ruth
Dog names about as popular as Ruth
Ruth FAQ
How many pets are named Ruth?
In the public pet records we track, 106 pets are named Ruth: 95 dogs, 11 cats. Where sex was recorded, 100% are female and 0% male. It ranks #811 among dog names and #984 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Ruth?
Among dogs named Ruth 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); 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.