Star
How many real pets are named Star, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Star as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 397 pets are named Star: 326 dogs, 69 cats, 1 goat, 1 rat. Where sex was recorded, 90% are female and 10% male. It ranks #229 among dog names and #133 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Star
Dogs
- Pit Bull: 32
- Shih Tzu: 26
- Yorkshire Terrier: 25
- Chihuahua: 20
- Labrador Retriever: 13
Cats
Goats
- Miniature: 1
Rats
- Rat: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Star
- New York City: 232licensed
- Austin shelter: 100shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 22shelter
- Toronto: 19licensed
- Seattle: 17licensed
- Burnside (SA): 4licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 3licensed
Star as a human name
This is the meaning of Star as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from English. Root meaning: “starling”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Star
Dog names about as popular as Star
Star FAQ
How many pets are named Star?
In the public pet records we track, 397 pets are named Star: 326 dogs, 69 cats, 1 goat, 1 rat. Where sex was recorded, 90% are female and 10% male. It ranks #229 among dog names and #133 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Star?
Among dogs named Star 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); Licensed Dog and Cat Names, City of Toronto (Open Government Licence – Toronto); Burnside Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); 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.