Breed · New York City

Shiba Inu names

Every list of Shiba Inu names online was written by someone making them up. This one is what 3,703 actual licensed Shiba Inus in New York are called. The most common is Mochi, carried by 39 of them, setting aside the 115 recorded simply as “Shiba”.

Rank	Name	Shiba Inus	Per 10,000 Shiba Inus
1	Shiba	115	311
2	Mochi	39	105
3	Max	37	100
4	Yoshi	32	86
5	Luna	32	86
6	Yuki	31	84
7	Kuma	29	78
8	Bella	23	62
9	Kobe	21	57
10	Hachi	20	54
11	Charlie	20	54
12	Hiro	19	51
13	Milo	18	49
14	Rocky	17	46
15	Dog	17	46
16	Foxy	16	43
17	Hunter	16	43
18	Mia	16	43
19	Nala	16	43
20	Leo	15	41
21	Miso	15	41
22	Simba	14	38
23	Kenji	14	38
24	Kitsune	14	38
25	Cooper	13	35
26	Toby	13	35
27	Momo	13	35
28	Lucky	13	35
29	Ruby	13	35
30	Haru	13	35

† “Shiba” 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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