Salem
How many real pets are named Salem, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Salem as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 137 pets are named Salem: 99 cats, 38 dogs. Where sex was recorded, 42% are female and 58% male. It ranks #1,788 among dog names and #68 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Salem
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 6
- Australian Shepherd: 3
- German Shepherd: 3
- Cavalier King Charles Spaniel: 2
- Siberian Husky: 2
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Salem
- Austin shelter: 52shelter
- Toronto: 36licensed
- New York City: 22licensed
- Seattle: 18licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 6shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 3licensed
Salem as a human name
This is the meaning of Salem as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from Hebrew.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Salem
Cat names about as popular as Salem
Salem FAQ
How many pets are named Salem?
In the public pet records we track, 137 pets are named Salem: 99 cats, 38 dogs. Where sex was recorded, 42% are female and 58% male. It ranks #1,788 among dog names and #68 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Salem?
Among cats named Salem in these records, the most common breed is Domestic Shorthair.
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); 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.