Will
How many real pets are named Will, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Will as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 68 pets are named Will: 44 dogs, 23 cats, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #1,596 among dog names and #468 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Will
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 3
- Chihuahua: 2
- Maltese: 2
- Border Collie: 2
- Pit Bull: 1
Cats
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Will
- Austin shelter: 31shelter
- New York City: 25licensed
- Seattle: 5licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 4shelter
- Burnside (SA): 2licensed
- Prospect (SA): 1licensed
Will as a human name
This is the meaning of Will as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the male given name William or, less often, other given names beginning with Wil-, such as Wilfred or Willard, from the Germanic languages; also used as a formal given name.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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How many pets are named Will?
In the public pet records we track, 68 pets are named Will: 44 dogs, 23 cats, 1 guinea pig. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #1,596 among dog names and #468 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Will?
Among dogs named Will in these records, the most common breed is Labrador Retriever.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); 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.