Sam
How many real pets are named Sam, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Sam as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 818 pets are named Sam: 678 dogs, 138 cats, 2 others. Where sex was recorded, 12% are female and 88% male. It ranks #99 among dog names and #34 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Sam
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 59
- German Shepherd: 39
- Shih Tzu: 28
- Chihuahua: 23
- Pit Bull: 20
Cats
Others
- Sugar Glider: 1
- Lop-Holland: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Sam
- New York City: 388licensed
- Austin shelter: 146shelter
- Toronto: 143licensed
- Seattle: 47licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 32shelter
- Burnside (SA): 19licensed
- Zurich: 14licensed
- Richmond, VA: 14licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 10licensed
- Prospect (SA): 4licensed
- Adelaide: 1licensed
Sam as a human name
This is the meaning of Sam as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the male given names Samuel and Samson.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Sam
Dog names about as popular as Sam
Sam FAQ
How many pets are named Sam?
In the public pet records we track, 818 pets are named Sam: 678 dogs, 138 cats, 2 others. Where sex was recorded, 12% are female and 88% male. It ranks #99 among dog names and #34 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Sam?
Among dogs named Sam 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); 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.