Shep
How many real pets are named Shep, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Shep as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 25 pets are named Shep: 25 dogs. Where sex was recorded, 0% are female and 100% male. It ranks #2,545 among dog names.
Breeds most often named Shep
Dogs
- German Shepherd: 6
- Border Collie: 2
- Pug: 1
- Collie, Border: 1
- Cocker Spaniel: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Shep
- New York City: 12licensed
- Seattle: 5licensed
- Austin shelter: 5shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 1licensed
- Burnside (SA): 1licensed
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
Shep as a human name
This is the meaning of Shep as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the male given name Shepherd.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Shep
Dog names about as popular as Shep
Shep FAQ
How many pets are named Shep?
In the public pet records we track, 25 pets are named Shep: 25 dogs. Where sex was recorded, 0% are female and 100% male. It ranks #2,545 among dog names.
What breed is most often named Shep?
Among dogs named Shep in these records, the most common breed is German Shepherd.
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; 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.