German Shepherd names

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The most common names among 33,028 German Shepherds (and German Shepherd crosses) in public pet registers.

Top German Shepherd names

Names typical of German Shepherds

These names are much more common for German Shepherds than for dogs in general.

Name	German Shepherds	More common than average
German	20	22.4×
Jerry Lee	12	20.1×
Rommel	16	10.4×
Panzer	17	10.0×
Shep	29	8.8×
Schultz	19	7.6×
Kaiser	56	7.4×
Kimber	43	6.7×
Wolf	14	6.0×
Baron	50	6.0×
Gretta	13	5.8×
Saber	12	5.8×
Blitz	29	5.7×
Schatzi	17	5.6×
Sheba	119	5.6×
Ziva	41	5.5×
Gunther	26	5.2×
Sarge	59	5.2×
Klaus	21	5.2×
Zeppelin	12	5.0×
Hades	16	4.9×
Wolfgang	17	4.7×
Sheena	16	4.7×
Natasha	23	4.6×

Where German Shepherds are most common

Place	German Shepherds	Share of dogs	Breed rank
Tacoma	237	6.6%	#3
Allegheny County	21,311	5.2%	#2
Maple Ridge	319	5.0%	#2
Laval	390	4.6%	#6
Playford	679	4.1%	#6
Port Moody	88	3.7%	#5
Worcester	257	3.5%	#5
Seattle	894	3.5%	#6
Framingham	137	3.1%	#6
Vancouver	301	2.5%	#11
Prospect	25	2.4%	#14
Burlington	21	2.4%	#8
Golden Plains Shire	119	2.3%	#11
New York City	7,490	2.2%	#9
Cambridge	284	2.2%	#8
Corangamite Shire	58	2.2%	#13
Burnside	106	2.0%	#13
Adelaide	31	2.0%	#17
Noosa	169	1.8%	#13
Surf Coast Shire	97	1.8%	#10

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