Butter ranks #456 with 268 entries, registered gender-neutral. The name is a direct food-word borrowing — pure descriptor, no etymological complication — and it functions in pet-naming as one of the most literal coat-color picks on the chart. The cluster overlaps strongly with Butterscotch, Peanut, and Honey.
The food-name aesthetic
Butter sits firmly in the soft-food-name cluster of pet picks alongside Cookie, Muffin, Mochi, and Pudding. Owners reaching for these names share a register: cozy, slightly ironic, fully unbothered by formality. The food layer is the entire point. The K-pop hit Butter by BTS (2021) added a brief contemporary cultural anchor for younger owners, but the underlying food register dominates.
Breed lean and color fit
Butter lands almost exclusively on yellow, golden, or cream-coated breeds where the color match is literal — yellow Labradors, Goldens, blonde Cocker Spaniels, cream-colored Poodles, and golden mixed breeds. There is also a meaningful cluster of orange tabby cats and yellow-fronted parrots wearing the name. A black-coated dog named Butter is rare and almost always deliberate irony.
The serious-context limitation
Worth flagging: Butter locks the pet permanently in the cute-soft register, and that limits how the name reads on a working dog or in any public context with sharper expectations. A vet calling Butter in the waiting room is a different kind of moment than calling Atlas. The human Butter page shows essentially zero SSA presence.