Spot
How many real pets are named Spot, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Spot as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 205 pets are named Spot: 176 dogs, 28 cats, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 12% are female and 88% male. It ranks #450 among dog names and #373 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Spot
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 23
- Chihuahua: 13
- Jack Russell Terrier: 12
- Shih Tzu: 9
- Labrador Retriever: 8
Cats
Others
- English Spot: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Spot
- New York City: 99licensed
- Austin shelter: 64shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 19shelter
- Seattle: 10licensed
- Burnside (SA): 5licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 3licensed
- Richmond, VA: 3licensed
- Zurich: 1licensed
- Adelaide: 1licensed
Names similar to Spot
Dog names about as popular as Spot
Spot FAQ
How many pets are named Spot?
In the public pet records we track, 205 pets are named Spot: 176 dogs, 28 cats, 1 other. Where sex was recorded, 12% are female and 88% male. It ranks #450 among dog names and #373 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Spot?
Among dogs named Spot 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); Dog Registrations, City of Adelaide (CC BY 3.0 AU); Burnside Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); 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.