While there are plusses and minuses to naming your children with very common (or uncommon) names — do the same apply to pets?
Regardless, in case you’re worried (one way or another), here are the most common pet names (in the US) for …
Dogs (male)
- Max
- Jake
- Buddy
- Bear
- Bailey
- Shadow
- Sam
- Lucky
- Rocky
- Buster
Dogs (female)
- Maggie
- Bear
- Molly
- Shadow
- Lady
- Sadie
- Lucky
- Lucy
- Daisy
- Brandy
Cats (male)
- Tigger
- Tiger
- Max
- Smokey
- Sam
- Kitty
- Shadow
- Simba
- Patch
- Lucky
Cats (female)
- Tigger
- Tiger
- Smokey
- Kitty
- Sassy
- Shadow
- Patch
- Lucky
- Misty
- Sammy
It’s interesting that there seems to be a lot less gender differentiation of names for cats.
(via J-Walk)
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In my childhood, we had the following pets:
Dogs – Satan, Ginger
Cats – Jinx, George, Dusty, Misty, Patches, Goggles
Jinx was a black & white, and we youngsters wanted to name him Sylvester. My mom asked if there wasn’t a cat named “Jinx,” so he got named after the orange “Mr. Jinks.” :p
All of which is reminding me of the Your Porn Star Name meme (name of your first pet + name of the street you grew up on), which came up in conversation the other evening …
I don’t recall the name of the street I grew up on in North Dakota. The earliest one I remember is from when I was about 10, so… “Satan Greystone”?
That’s… actually kind of cool. More for an arch-villain than a porn star, maybe, but… yeah.