Sheldon
How many real pets are named Sheldon, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Sheldon as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 74 pets are named Sheldon: 50 dogs, 22 cats, 1 hamster, 1 turtle. Where sex was recorded, 5% are female and 95% male. It ranks #1,413 among dog names and #495 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Sheldon
Dogs
- Chihuahua: 6
- Poodle: 3
- Pit Bull: 3
- French Bulldog: 2
- Pug: 2
Cats
- Domestic Shorthair: 20
- American Shorthair: 1
- Manx: 1
Hamsters
- Hamster: 1
Turtles
- Turtle: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Sheldon
- New York City: 34licensed
- Austin shelter: 23shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 10shelter
- Seattle: 4licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 1licensed
- Zurich: 1licensed
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
Sheldon as a human name
This is the meaning of Sheldon as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name transferred from the surname. Root meaning: “shelf”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Sheldon
Dog names about as popular as Sheldon
Sheldon FAQ
How many pets are named Sheldon?
In the public pet records we track, 74 pets are named Sheldon: 50 dogs, 22 cats, 1 hamster, 1 turtle. Where sex was recorded, 5% are female and 95% male. It ranks #1,413 among dog names and #495 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Sheldon?
Among dogs named Sheldon in these records, the most common breed is Chihuahua.
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); 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.