Pom ranks at #781 with 150 entries, registered male. This is one of the cleanest paperwork-artifact slugs on the chart — Pom on a pet registry is overwhelmingly a Pomeranian whose owner used the breed shorthand as the entry name on the licensing form, not a deliberate pet name. The data here reflects clerical pattern more than naming choice.
The breed-shorthand artifact
A meaningful share of registry Poms are Pomeranians where the licensing entry shows "Pom" as the dog's name because that is how the owner verbally referred to the dog ("my Pom") and the form-filler captured the shorthand rather than the actual call name. The household almost certainly uses a different daily name — Bear, Teddy, Foxy — but the paperwork preserves the breed-as-name format. Other registry Poms are deliberately picked diminutives of longer names like Pomona or Pompeii, but this slice is the smaller one.
Breed lean
The name lands almost exclusively on Pomeranians for obvious reasons, with the occasional small-fluffy mix where the owner-described breed reads as Pom-like. The breed concentration on this slug is among the highest on the entire registry, precisely because the artifact pattern collapses breed and name onto the same syllable.
Sound and counter-reading
One syllable, hard plosive opening and closing (P-OM), with a clean recall shape that carries outside.
The honest counter-reading: if you are picking a name for a Pomeranian, picking Pom doubles down on the breed reference rather than naming the dog. Owners who like the meta-clarity pick it on purpose; others find the result anonymous and pick something with personality like Teddy or Foxy. Browse other small-dog picks.