Snow ranks at #180 with 580 entries, and the name does the literal-descriptor work that Cocoa does for brown coats and Smokey does for gray. White-coated pets — Samoyeds, Maltese, white cats, white huskies — disproportionately end up Snow.
The white-coat naming convention
Snow shares the white-descriptor register with Ghost, Casper, and Blanca. The four names land on roughly the same animals but signal slightly different aesthetic choices. Snow reads as the most natural-coded: quiet, weather-referenced, less playful than Casper. Owners reaching for that calmer register tend to skew toward the same demographic that picks Luna and Willow.
One counter-reading: Game of Thrones's Jon Snow and the Stark direwolf Ghost are real cultural anchors that pulled both Snow and Ghost up the pet leaderboard between 2011 and 2019. The bump for Snow has held longer than for many show-driven names, partly because the name had a literal-descriptor function that did not depend on the show alone.
Where the name lands
Samoyeds, white Huskies, white German Shepherds, and white-coated cats over-index strongly on Snow. Compare with the Siberian Husky leaderboard, where weather-and-snow-coded names cluster at noticeably higher rates than across the full pet leaderboard. The name does not cross meaningfully to baby naming, which is consistent with most descriptor-style pet names. The one-syllable shape projects well outdoors, which is useful for the active breeds the name lands on, and the SN consonant onset is clean enough to recall reliably across a snowy yard or open trail. Owners cross-shopping similar names often consider Casper alongside Snow before settling on which white-coat register fits best.