Simon
How many real pets are named Simon, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Simon as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 433 pets are named Simon: 297 dogs, 134 cats, 2 guinea pigs. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #254 among dog names and #39 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Simon
Dogs
- Chihuahua: 25
- Labrador Retriever: 17
- Dachshund: 13
- Pit Bull: 13
- Shih Tzu: 12
Cats
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 2
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Simon
- New York City: 222licensed
- Austin shelter: 103shelter
- Toronto: 45licensed
- Seattle: 34licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 18shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 8licensed
- Zurich: 2licensed
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
Simon as a human name
This is the meaning of Simon as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Hebrew.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Simon
Dog names about as popular as Simon
Simon FAQ
How many pets are named Simon?
In the public pet records we track, 433 pets are named Simon: 297 dogs, 134 cats, 2 guinea pigs. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #254 among dog names and #39 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Simon?
Among dogs named Simon 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); Licensed Dog and Cat Names, City of Toronto (Open Government Licence – Toronto); 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.