2023 is rolling and dog names are fascinating as always. Let’s take a look at what’s trending so far from our data-crunching page of dog names. We’ll watch the data and make updates throughout the year!
At the time of this snapshot (3/30/2023), here are the most popular dog names that we tracked from 29,561 adoptable dogs across 5,999 shelters in the U.S.:
For current stats, visit our dog names page. You can also use our search box to see stats for any dog name in our data. We hope that you enjoy and are inspired to get creative with names for the dogs in your life!
2023 is in full swing and cat names are fascinating as always. Let’s take a look at what’s trending so far from our data-crunching page of cat names. We’ll watch the data and make updates throughout the year!
At the time of this snapshot (3/30/2023), here are the most popular cat names that we tracked from 14,344 adoptable cats across 5,999 shelters in the U.S.:
For current stats, visit our cat names page. You can also use our search box to see stats for any cat name in our data. We hope that you enjoy and are inspired to get creative with names for the cats in your life!
Part of our daily routine is sifting through data. Data, data, data. It is fun, and we love to figure out ways to display it in ways that others can enjoy it. As we crunch the data about adoptable pets, we take note of organizations that show up again and again, and one that continues to stand out is the No Kill Network. So we focused our lens on this organization for a while to learn more about it and we were blown away by what they’re doing to help save lives! We thought it was worth sharing our review, just as we did for Rescue Groups previously.
The No Kill Network has been around since 2006 and sums up its organization’s history as “a story of compassion, volunteers, and continuous education.” They have served as an organization that unifies thousands of physical shelters across the U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand with a common message that the old status quo solution of euthanasia when shelters run out of space is no longer acceptable. Back in 2006 when they started, you can imagine this wasn’t the prevailing mentality, but when you look at shelter statistics and gauge the sentiment of people today, a positive paradigm shift has occurred. And from what we can tell, the longevity and steadfast nature of the message that the No Kill Network has been voicing has played a big part in getting people to create and embrace the more compassionate status quo of saving lives.
One of the things we loved when reviewing their site was this statement:
“If you’d like to make a contribution to us, we appreciate it and thank you. However, we would ALWAYS prefer that you find a local, well-deserving organization and donate to them instead. Engage with, learn about, and help them – then share your feedback on our site in hopes that your insight will encourage others to do the same.”
In fact, you can find some links to contribute, but the links aren’t very obvious and we didn’t find anywhere that they are bombarding people with requests. So kudos to them for directing funds in an effective way that serves pets at the local level.
In addition to promoting the no-kill message, they have built tools to help pets in need of homes connect with people who are looking to adopt. This is how we found out about the nokill network in the first place – adoptable pets posted on nokillnetwork.org are updated daily on our website through our pet datafeed. They also have a service to help people report lost and found pets, (we don’t display that data on our site). Posting any adoptable, lost, or found pet is free, and they’ll put the word out to their community that there is a pet in need.
So based on our review of the No Kill Network, we are very impressed with the amount of good they’ve added to the world and wanted to share our review to provide them with a legitimate thumbs up to keep it going. If you want to read some No Kill Network reviews from people that have used their website to help them with their pets, get your tissues out and read through the success stories people have posted. See those stories and we think you’ll agree, in Namedat speak, “Dat’s Legit!”
If you have any comments you’d like to add, we’d love to hear from you, contact us here.
There is often so much creativity and thoughtfulness that goes into the naming of a cat. Is your cat name on the list?
As the year 2022 is coming to a close, we’ve taken a snapshot of the most current cat name data. We’ll take snapshots throughout the year so that we can refer back to them to see how they change over time.
At the time of this snapshot (12/30/2022), here’s the cat name data that we tracked from our sources:
There are currently 21,984 adoptable cats across 5,999 shelters in the U.S. in need of homes.
69.41% of all adoptable cats are domestic short hair
7.69% are tabby
7.36% are domestic medium hair
4.13% are domestic long hair
1.55% are tuxedo
About 53.7% of all adoptable cats in America are female and 46.3% are male.
You can use our search box to see stats for any cat name in our data. We hope that you enjoy this and are inspired to get creative with names for the cats in your life!
There is often so much creativity and thoughtfulness that goes into the naming of a dog. Is your dog’s name on the list?
As the year 2022 is coming to a close, let’s take a snapshot of the most current dog name data. We’ll take snapshots throughout the year so that we can refer back to them to see how they change over time.
At the time of this snapshot (12/30/2022), here’s the dog name data that we tracked from our sources:
There are currently 28,346 adoptable dogs across 5,999 shelters in the U.S. in need of homes.
11.02% of all adoptable dogs are pit bull terrier
10.78% are labrador retriever
7.45% are terrier
7.11% are german shepherd dog
4.38% are chihuahua
About 54.4% of all adoptable dogs in America are male and 45.6% are female.
You can use our search box to see stats for any dog name in our data. We hope that you enjoy and are inspired to get creative with names for the dogs in your life!
From where does all of this pet data come? For the majority of it, we’d like to give a big shout-out to RescueGroups.org! They are an outstanding non-profit with big hearts and big technological solutions. If you are an animal welfare organization, we encourage you to explore their services to learn how they can help you help the animals for whom you’re caring.
Namedat provides facts and stats about names, and although human names are interesting, the dog and cat name data is our passion. We decided to use pet name data based on adoptable animals because these are animals in the most need – animals who need to find loving homes as soon as possible. So although your interest in pet names may have brought you to our site, we hope that you might also consider providing a loving home or sharing a link with someone who can. The pet name data on our site is so much more than just facts and statistics about names – behind each name is an actual pet that you can locate, learn about, and help.
The pet data on namedat.com is updated daily, weekly, and monthly. We have many scripts in place to help extract, cleanse, filter, and display the names and pets in the most accurate way. We are always on the lookout for problems with the way that the data is displayed and also remove problematic data as it comes up. If you notice any data that you’d like us to review, please report it. Thank you for your help and interest!
Looking for a particular human name? Looking up your own name? Brainstorming ideas for a new name? Namedat is the site for you!
You can begin by using the search box to type in a first and last name. Available name combinations will be suggested below the search box – please select one of the suggestions and you will be taken to a page that displays data about that name. As noted clearly at the top and bottom of these types of pages on the website, “THIS SITE IS PROVIDED FOR FUN AND SHOULD NOT BE INTERPRETED AS PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT AN INDIVIDUAL.” This data is sourced from the U.S. SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION and USER SUBMISSIONS.
Occasionally, if the community has provided or requested information about a topic or public figure, we may also provide pages that offer in-depth information about the individual. Some examples include John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Aretha Franklin. We also post articles to the blog that we hope you will find interesting and relevant to the many facets of names.
This site combines data and design in an artistic way to make it fun and interesting to learn about names. We currently have data for the following name types:
Dog Names
You can browse national, state, and some city-level data about dog names by clicking on the links on the homepage or page headers that say Dog Names. You can also use the search box if you already have a dog name in mind. This data is pulled daily from adoptable dogs in need, and we hope that it can serve to help these dogs find new loving homes.
Cat Names
You can browse national, state, and some city-level data about cat names by clicking on the links on the homepage or page headers that say Cat Names. You can also use the search box if you already have a cat name in mind. This data is updated daily with adoptable cats in need, and we hope that it can serve to help these cats find new loving homes.
Human Names
You can begin by using the search box to type in a first and last name. Available name combinations will be suggested below the search box – please select one of the suggestions and you will be taken to a page that displays data about that name. As noted clearly at the top and bottom of these types of pages on the website, “THIS SITE IS PROVIDED FOR FUN AND SHOULD NOT BE INTERPRETED AS PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT AN INDIVIDUAL.” This data is sourced from the U.S. SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION and USER SUBMISSIONS.
Articles and Bio Pages
Occasionally, if the community has provided or requested information about a topic or public figure, we may also provide pages that offer in-depth information about the individual. Some examples include John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Aretha Franklin. We also post articles to the blog that we hope you will find interesting and relevant to the many facets of names.
We hope that you enjoy using our website and find it fun and interesting!
This post is a part of our series on Tom Horn – full collection of links at the bottom of the page.
Tom Horn in jail in Cheyenne, WY
Tom Horn – The Legends, The Truth Old West outlaw? No, not in the conventional sense. Old West lawman, yes, at times a deputy U.S. marshal and deputy sheriff. Old West stock detective. Superb athlete and cowboy. An instrument of Satan? Perhaps, depending upon one’s perspective. But people whose parents and grandparents employed him say he was “a fine fellow, honest and dependable and very, very good at what he did.”
Tom Horn
Today few stories are more alive, colorful and controversial than are those of Tom Horn of Wyoming. Hanged for a murder he probably did not commit (but could have), firestorms of controversy still surround debates of his guilt and the questionable nature of his trial.Operating unchecked as a stock detective for Wyoming’s cattle barons for ten years, he was a death sentence to rustlers and the devil incarnate to the homesteader.
Born in 1860 in northeast Missouri, he left home as a young teen, in search of adventure – and because of an abusive father.
Tom Horn’s Father
He headed for the Southwest, where he soon became a wrangler and scout for the army in the Apache wars. Becoming chief of scouts under Generals Crook and Miles, he was instrumental in capturing Geronimo for the final time.
Army scouts in Arizona — Tom Horn at left (?)
F. M. Ownbey, who worked with Tom Horn after Horn became a Pinkerton’s agent in Colorado. After Horn’s arrest for murdering Willie Nickell, Ownbey wrote to him in jail and said he felt he was innocent.
F. M. Ownbey
An epidemic of cattle rustling in southern Wyoming in the 1890s and the desperate straits of stockmen set the stage for Tom Horn’s arrival. Cattle thieves were duly warned, blood was shed, and Tom Horn was implicated but never charged.
Then on the morning of July 18, 1901, Willie Nickell, the fourteen-year-old son of a contentious, paranoid Wyoming sheepman, was shot.
The Nickell family at their homestead (Willie at right)The murder site (gate at center)
Horn had been in the area, where romance entered the legend, in the person of an attractive schoolmarm.
Glendolene M. Kimmell, Horn’s alleged girlfriend
Witnesses said “He made a very good impression on her; she was stuck on him.”
Tom and Glendolene (from a painting, “Iron Mountain Morning” by L. D. Edgar)
Joe LeForsHorn was duped into making a so-called confession after spending a night carousing in Cheyenne. The ruse was a job as a cattle detective in Montana – which did not exist. The master of dirty tricks was a deputy U.S. marshal in search of the reward money and glory, Joe LeFors.
Horn was arrested, tried in a controversial trial and hanged the day before his 43rd birthday in 1903.
Gallows used to hang Tom Horn in Cheyenne, Wyoming
A retrial was held in 1993 in which he was declared innocent. The New York Times described the trial, “Once Guilty, Now Innocent, But Still Dead.”
This essay was originally published on Chip Carlson’s personal website, which has since expired, and is re-published here as a way to preserve some of the content of this historical figure. If you would like to continue learning about Tom Horn, please explore the links below. If you’d like to read the complete story, and help to support the author, his book can be purchased here.
This post is a part of our series on Tom Horn – full collection of links at the bottom of the page.
“Innocent!”
The word rang out like a gunshot in the crowded Cheyenne courtroom in September 1993, almost a hundred years after Tom Horn’s hanging for first-degree murder.
Although the 1901 murder of 14-year-old Willie Nickell was supposedly settled with the hanging of stock detective Tom Horn in 1903, new evidence and a recently discovered rifle open questions and add deepening mystery to the episode.
Was there more than one assassin?
A forensic firearms expert, Lucien Haag of Carefree, Arizona has used computer technology to develop graphics showing the wound paths in the body of young Nickell. Although the evidence is preliminary, it is possible that two shooters fired.
Haag used doctors’ testimony from the autopsy and trial testimony to chart the wound paths. However, without access to the boy’s clothing (which was lost to history) to corroborate whether there were two assassins, this remains only a theory.
Willie Nickell’s father stated that on the morning of the murder he and a surveyor were working northeast of Nickell’s Iron Mountain homestead when they heard three gunshots to the west – two in quick succession, followed by a third. The time lapse between the shots was never indicated.
Willie had ridden his father’s horse to the gate at the west perimeter of the property, dismounted to open the gate and lead the horse through, and turned to close the gate. Two shots hit him on the left back and side, traveled through his torso and exited. The boy ran or stumbled 20 yards toward home, and fell face-down. A younger brother found Willie the next morning. The body had gravel and dirt on the front with considerable blood, but had been turned over with the shirt torn open, perhaps by the killer(s) to verify who it was and view the wounds.
Haag visited the site of the murder with four local guides familiar with the history, Cheyenne’s Chip Carlson, Don Patterson, and Ken Rolfsness along with the Wyoming State Crime Lab’s firearms examiner, Steve Norris. Carlson is an author and authority on the crime, Patterson is the former Cheyenne chief of police who spearheaded a crime site survey in 1992, Rolfsness has played a major role in the history, portraying Tom Horn in his retrial in Cheyenne in 1993.
Haag has emphasized that no final conclusions can be drawn from his analysis, because the clothing Willie wore when murdered has been lost to history. It was, however, used as evidence in Tom Horn’s trial. A forensic examination and testing of this shirt, should it ever be located, would answer the question as to caliber, bullet type and possibly even range of fire. The clothing was Willie’s own, refuting rumors that he was wearing his father’s.
The Nickell family had been in feuds with a neighboring family, the Jim Millers, whose father had sworn to avenge the death of a son he attributed to the inflammatory actions of Willie’s father. Miller had two older sons, and the men of both families had been in violent confrontations.
Which rifle was used in the crime?
Tom Horn had a Winchester model 1894 .30-30 caliber in his possession when was arrested for the crime. However, there was a .45-60 cartridge in his pockets, along with a .30-40 Government cartridge and a .38-40 cartridge. These are now in the Wyoming State Museum’s collections. The cartridges may have been used in his trial although there is no written record of that.
Cartridges in Tom Horn’s pocket when he was arrested (Wyoming State Museum)
A Winchester 76 model in .45-60 caliber has recently surfaced that came from the Bosler ranch of John Coble, Tom Horn’s chief benefactor. Now in private hands, it was acquired by the owner’s father from a Laramie County museum. The rifle has a crude leather sling with “John C. Coble, Bosler, WY” carved on it.
In the buttstock, wrapped around the sectioned cleaning rod was an envelope of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association upon which, written in pencil, are the lyrics to “Life’s Railroad to Heaven” (the hymn sung at Horn’s hanging) and signed G.M. Kimmell.
Glendolene Myrtle Kimmell was a school teacher at Iron Mountain. She boarded at the Miller ranch and was romantically linked in legend to Tom Horn. After his death she worked in Denver, editing his autobiography. The book was published by John Coble in 1904.
Accompanying the .45-60 rifle is a portion of Montana Standard newspaper (Butte, MT) dated May 9, 1937 that shows a picture of the Coble Ranch and has a number of handwritten and typewritten entries on it purportedly relating to the sale and transfer of this rifle. These have attached a Bill of Sale dated July 6, 1936 for $26 “One of 2 Winchester rifles from the Coble ranch, Jack Linscott.”
Linscott was a rancher in northern Albany County. Tom Horn stated that he was at Linscott’s place when Willie Nickell’s father was shot and wounded a few days after Willie’s murder.
In the Steve McQueen movie “Tom Horn,” McQueen stated that he preferred a .45-60 because it was easy to buy ammunition for it in any country store. McQueen’s movie researchers had combed the State Museum and apparently decided to reference that caliber because of the cartridges there.
The doctors who conducted Willie Nickell’s autopsy stated that the wounds were too large to have been made by a .30-caliber weapon.
Could Tom Horn – or someone else – have used a .45-60 in the Nickell murder, stashing it away for later retrieval?
This essay was originally published on Chip Carlson’s personal website, which has since expired, and is re-published here as a way to preserve some of the content of this historical figure. If you would like to continue learning about Tom Horn, please explore the links below. If you’d like to read the complete story, and help to support the author, his book can be purchased here.
