Van
How many real pets are named Van, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Van as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 21 pets are named Van: 19 dogs, 2 cats. Where sex was recorded, 10% are female and 90% male. It ranks #3,034 among dog names and #3,964 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Van
Dogs
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Van
- New York City: 17licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 2licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 1shelter
- Austin shelter: 1shelter
Van as a human name
This is the meaning of Van as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the female given name Vanessa.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Van
Dog names about as popular as Van
Van FAQ
How many pets are named Van?
In the public pet records we track, 21 pets are named Van: 19 dogs, 2 cats. Where sex was recorded, 10% are female and 90% male. It ranks #3,034 among dog names and #3,964 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Van?
Among dogs named Van in these records, the most common breed is Yorkshire Terrier.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Dogs of Cambridge (ODC PDDL); 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.