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Tom

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

159 real pets#1,039 dog name#87 cat name8 places

How popular is Tom as a pet name?

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In the public pet records we track, 159 pets are named Tom: 86 cats, 72 dogs, 1 rat. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #1,039 among dog names and #87 among cat names.

Breeds most often named Tom

Dogs

Cats

Rats

  • Rat: 1

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

Where pets are named Tom

Tom as a human name

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

A diminutive of the male given name Thomas, also used as a formal male given name.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Names similar to Tom

Cat names about as popular as Tom

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How many pets are named Tom?

In the public pet records we track, 159 pets are named Tom: 86 cats, 72 dogs, 1 rat. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #1,039 among dog names and #87 among cat names.

What breed is most often named Tom?

Among cats named Tom in these records, the most common breed is Domestic Shorthair.

Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); Licensed Dog and Cat Names, City of Toronto (Open Government Licence – Toronto); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); 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.