William
How many real pets are named William, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is William as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 102 pets are named William: 78 dogs, 24 cats. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #976 among dog names and #445 among cat names.
Breeds most often named William
Dogs
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named William
- New York City: 49licensed
- Austin shelter: 29shelter
- Sonoma County shelter: 11shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 7licensed
- Seattle: 3licensed
- Zurich: 1licensed
- Prospect (SA): 1licensed
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
William as a human name
This is the meaning of William as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from the Germanic languages popular since the Norman Conquest. Root meaning: “will”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to William
Dog names about as popular as William
William FAQ
How many pets are named William?
In the public pet records we track, 102 pets are named William: 78 dogs, 24 cats. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #976 among dog names and #445 among cat names.
What breed is most often named William?
Among dogs named William 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); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); City of Prospect 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.