Sampson
How many real pets are named Sampson, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Sampson as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 124 pets are named Sampson: 104 dogs, 20 cats. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #739 among dog names and #533 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Sampson
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 16
- Labrador Retriever: 11
- German Shepherd: 8
- Boxer: 4
- Beagle: 3
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Sampson
- New York City: 53licensed
- Austin shelter: 39shelter
- Seattle: 11licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 11shelter
- Richmond, VA: 6licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 2licensed
- Burnside (SA): 2licensed
Sampson as a human name
This is the meaning of Sampson as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Dog names about as popular as Sampson
Sampson FAQ
How many pets are named Sampson?
In the public pet records we track, 124 pets are named Sampson: 104 dogs, 20 cats. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #739 among dog names and #533 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Sampson?
Among dogs named Sampson 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); 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.