Shannon
How many real pets are named Shannon, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Shannon as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 15 pets are named Shannon: 14 dogs, 1 cat. Where sex was recorded, 93% are female and 7% male. It ranks #3,777 among dog names and #5,923 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Shannon
Dogs
- Beagle: 2
- Pug: 1
- Terrier: 1
- Irish Setter: 1
- Pembroke Welsh Corgi: 1
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Shannon
- New York City: 11licensed
- Seattle: 1licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 1licensed
- Zurich: 1licensed
- Austin shelter: 1shelter
Shannon as a human name
This is the meaning of Shannon as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A unisex given name transferred from the surname or place name (from the river); first used in the USA in early 20th century, and only recently in Ireland.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Shannon
Dog names about as popular as Shannon
Shannon FAQ
How many pets are named Shannon?
In the public pet records we track, 15 pets are named Shannon: 14 dogs, 1 cat. Where sex was recorded, 93% are female and 7% male. It ranks #3,777 among dog names and #5,923 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Shannon?
Among dogs named Shannon in these records, the most common breed is Beagle.
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); 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.