Border Collie names

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The most common names among 11,331 Border Collies (and Border Collie crosses) in public pet registers.

Top Border Collie names

Names typical of Border Collies

These names are much more common for Border Collies than for dogs in general.

Name	Border Collies	More common than average
Jess	25	11.7×
Meg	13	8.2×
Banjo	26	6.2×
Tess	26	4.8×
Panda	20	4.4×
Jessie	36	3.7×
Skye	29	3.6×
Billie	16	3.5×
Milly	15	3.5×
Bonnie	39	3.3×
Harvey	16	3.0×
Jazz	13	3.0×
Chelsea	17	2.9×
Bandit	55	2.9×
Mollie	14	2.9×
Tilly	18	2.7×
Duchess	12	2.6×
Monty	21	2.5×

Where Border Collies are most common

Place	Border Collies	Share of dogs	Breed rank
Golden Plains Shire	567	10.7%	#2
Corangamite Shire	256	9.6%	#2
Surf Coast Shire	513	9.3%	#3
Noosa	673	7.1%	#2
Burnside	255	4.9%	#6
Prospect	39	3.7%	#6
Maple Ridge	200	3.1%	#6
Playford	520	3.1%	#9
Port Moody	72	3.0%	#8
Vancouver	339	2.8%	#10
Seattle	564	2.2%	#10
Adelaide	34	2.2%	#13
Tacoma	71	2.0%	#11
Burlington	15	1.7%	#14
Cambridge	195	1.5%	#13
Laval	99	1.2%	#22
Framingham	48	1.1%	#25
Allegheny County	4,443	1.1%	#19
Worcester	55	0.7%	#30
New York City	2,373	0.7%	#33

Only places whose registers record breed. Breed names are matched across languages and spellings as well as we could.