Samuel
How many real pets are named Samuel, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Samuel as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 59 pets are named Samuel: 50 dogs, 9 cats. Where sex was recorded, 4% are female and 96% male. It ranks #1,419 among dog names and #1,241 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Samuel
Dogs
- Yorkshire Terrier: 5
- Shih Tzu: 5
- Labrador Retriever: 5
- Dachshund: 3
- Beagle: 3
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Samuel
- New York City: 41licensed
- Austin shelter: 10shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 5shelter
- Seattle: 3licensed
Samuel as a human name
This is the meaning of Samuel as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Hebrew. Root meaning: “I have asked/borrowed him from God”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Samuel
Dog names about as popular as Samuel
Samuel FAQ
How many pets are named Samuel?
In the public pet records we track, 59 pets are named Samuel: 50 dogs, 9 cats. Where sex was recorded, 4% are female and 96% male. It ranks #1,419 among dog names and #1,241 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Samuel?
Among dogs named Samuel in these records, the most common breed is Yorkshire Terrier.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); 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.