PupCensus

Breed · New York City

Pug names

Every list of Pug names online was written by someone making them up. This one is what 2,822 actual licensed Pugs in New York are called. The most common is Rocky, carried by 31 of them, setting aside the 49 recorded simply as “Pug”.

RankNamePugsPer 10,000 Pugs
1 Pug 49 174
2 Rocky 31 110
3 Bella 29 103
4 Lola 27 96
5 Luna 23 82
6 Charlie 21 74
7 Max 20 71
8 Bailey 18 64
9 Pugsley 16 57
10 Buster 16 57
11 Lucy 16 57
12 Bruno 16 57
13 Gus 16 57
14 Oliver 15 53
15 Daisy 15 53
16 Oscar 14 50
17 Frankie 14 50
18 Coco 13 46
19 Louie 13 46
20 Milo 13 46
21 Olive 13 46
22 Molly 12 43
23 Rosie 12 43
24 Penny 12 43
25 Stella 12 43
26 Lady 12 43
27 Biggie 11 39
28 Frank 11 39
29 Lucky 11 39
30 Gizmo 11 39

† “Pug” is the breed word rather than a chosen name. Nothing in the license record separates a dog whose breed was entered in the name field from one an owner really did name after its breed, so these are marked rather than removed.

About these numbers

From dog license records, not a count of all dogs. Around 80% of New York City dogs are unlicensed, so this describes licensed dogs only. Breed is recorded by the owner as free text and has been standardized: crossbreed and mix variants are folded into the primary breed.

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