Samson
How many real pets are named Samson, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Samson as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 285 pets are named Samson: 264 dogs, 20 cats, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #297 among dog names and #519 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Samson
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 19
- Labrador Retriever: 19
- German Shepherd: 14
- Shih Tzu: 10
- Golden Retriever: 9
Cats
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Samson
- New York City: 218licensed
- Austin shelter: 36shelter
- Seattle: 11licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 9shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 4licensed
- Zurich: 2licensed
- Adelaide: 2licensed
- Richmond, VA: 2licensed
- Burnside (SA): 1licensed
Samson as a human name
This is the meaning of Samson as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Hebrew.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Samson
Dog names about as popular as Samson
Samson FAQ
How many pets are named Samson?
In the public pet records we track, 285 pets are named Samson: 264 dogs, 20 cats, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #297 among dog names and #519 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Samson?
Among dogs named Samson 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); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); 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.