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Shiro

How many real pets are named Shiro, which animals and breeds have it, and where.

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How popular is Shiro as a pet name?

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In the public pet records we track, 38 pets are named Shiro: 34 dogs, 4 cats. Where sex was recorded, 19% are female and 81% male. It ranks #1,977 among dog names and #2,432 among cat names.

Breeds most often named Shiro

Dogs

Cats

Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.

Where pets are named Shiro

Shiro as a human name

This is the meaning of Shiro as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.

A male given name from Japanese.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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How many pets are named Shiro?

In the public pet records we track, 38 pets are named Shiro: 34 dogs, 4 cats. Where sex was recorded, 19% are female and 81% male. It ranks #1,977 among dog names and #2,432 among cat names.

What breed is most often named Shiro?

Among dogs named Shiro in these records, the most common breed is Shiba Inu.

Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); 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.