Pug names

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The most common names among 8,969 Pugs (and Pug crosses) in public pet registers.

Top Pug names

Names typical of Pugs

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

Name	Pugs	More common than average
Pug	60	78.6×
Puggy	13	66.1×
Pugsly	24	61.0×
Pugsley	70	51.3×
Mugsy	21	9.8×
Yoda	23	7.9×
Petunia	13	6.7×
Frank	32	6.5×
Beans	12	5.3×
Biggie	12	4.3×
Otis	44	3.9×
Ozzie	15	3.5×
Franklin	16	3.3×
Mabel	17	3.2×
Olivia	12	2.9×
Phoebe	29	2.9×
Gus	44	2.7×
Gizmo	50	2.7×
Bubba	15	2.6×
Pearl	13	2.6×
Frankie	40	2.6×
Olive	30	2.6×
Junior	13	2.5×

Where Pugs are most common

Place	Pugs	Share of dogs	Breed rank
Adelaide	34	2.2%	#13
Corangamite Shire	42	1.6%	#14
Framingham	66	1.5%	#14
Burnside	73	1.4%	#17
Laval	107	1.3%	#20
Port Moody	30	1.3%	#21
Surf Coast Shire	62	1.1%	#19
Maple Ridge	71	1.1%	#25
Vancouver	136	1.1%	#20
Worcester	81	1.1%	#22
Seattle	281	1.1%	#19
Allegheny County	4,429	1.1%	#20
Tacoma	39	1.1%	#21
Golden Plains Shire	53	1.0%	#23
New York City	3,179	1.0%	#25
Prospect	10	0.9%	#22
Playford	131	0.8%	#29
Noosa	63	0.7%	#28
Cambridge	77	0.6%	#33

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