Sherlock
How many real pets are named Sherlock, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Sherlock as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 154 pets are named Sherlock: 138 dogs, 16 cats. Where sex was recorded, 4% are female and 96% male. It ranks #574 among dog names and #674 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Sherlock
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 6
- Labrador Retriever: 6
- Shih Tzu: 5
- Chihuahua: 5
- German Shepherd: 5
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Sherlock
- New York City: 107licensed
- Austin shelter: 23shelter
- Seattle: 12licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 6licensed
- Zurich: 3licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 3shelter
Sherlock as a human name
This is the meaning of Sherlock as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage. Root meaning: “bright-lock”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Sherlock
Dog names about as popular as Sherlock
Sherlock FAQ
How many pets are named Sherlock?
In the public pet records we track, 154 pets are named Sherlock: 138 dogs, 16 cats. Where sex was recorded, 4% are female and 96% male. It ranks #574 among dog names and #674 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Sherlock?
Among dogs named Sherlock 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); 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.