Tess
How many real pets are named Tess, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Tess as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 103 pets are named Tess: 87 dogs, 16 cats. Where sex was recorded, 99% are female and 1% male. It ranks #883 among dog names and #682 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Tess
Dogs
- Golden Retriever: 6
- Chihuahua: 6
- Terrier: 4
- Pit Bull: 4
- Australian Shepherd: 3
Cats
- Domestic Shorthair: 14
- Siamese: 2
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Tess
- New York City: 53licensed
- Austin shelter: 14shelter
- Seattle: 10licensed
- Burnside (SA): 9licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 8shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 5licensed
- Prospect (SA): 2licensed
- Zurich: 1licensed
- Adelaide: 1licensed
Tess as a human name
This is the meaning of Tess as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the female given name Teresa.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Tess
Dog names about as popular as Tess
Tess FAQ
How many pets are named Tess?
In the public pet records we track, 103 pets are named Tess: 87 dogs, 16 cats. Where sex was recorded, 99% are female and 1% male. It ranks #883 among dog names and #682 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Tess?
Among dogs named Tess in these records, the most common breed is Golden Retriever.
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); City of Prospect 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.