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Dog name · New York City

Bean

195 licensed New York dogs are called Bean, which makes it the 236th most common dog name in the city. Dogs called Bean are evenly split. The name is now 3.4x more common than it was fifteen years ago.

195Licensed New York dogs called Bean
#236Rank among all dog names in the city
2023Peak year, by the dog’s year of birth
46%Of Beans are female

Is Bean getting more or less popular?

0 10 20 2005: 3.6 per 10,000 2006: 1.5 per 10,000 2007: 4.9 per 10,000 2008: 5.3 per 10,000 2009: 3.7 per 10,000 2010: 1.6 per 10,000 2011: 1.6 per 10,000 2012: 2.7 per 10,000 2013: 4.9 per 10,000 2014: 6.9 per 10,000 2015: 4.3 per 10,000 2016: 5.8 per 10,000 2017: 6.9 per 10,000 2018: 6.8 per 10,000 2019: 5.5 per 10,000 2020: 12.1 per 10,000 2021: 8.5 per 10,000 2022: 11.3 per 10,000 2023: 13.3 per 10,000 20052010201520202023
Dogs called Bean, per 10,000, by the dog’s year of birth

Among dogs born in 2005, 3.6 in every 10,000 licensed New York dogs were called Bean. For dogs born in 2023 it was 13.3. The name peaked with the 2023 litters.

Where Bean is a Bay Ridge name

Bean is 4.28x more common in Bay Ridge than across the city as a whole.

Rarer here Commoner here shaded by times the citywide rate of 6.5
Shaded by how much more common Bean is in each ZIP code than in the city as a whole. Unshaded areas have too few licensed dogs to compare.
  • Bay RidgeBrooklyn 27.6
  • WilliamsburgBrooklyn 27
  • RidgewoodQueens 21.3
  • Murray HillManhattan 20.7
  • Upper West SideManhattan 12.9
  • Alphabet CityManhattan 12.9

per 10,000 dogs in that ZIP code

Only ZIP codes with at least 1,500 licensed dogs are compared, so a small neighborhood cannot produce a large number by accident.

What sort of dog gets called Bean?

Chihuahua 23Labrador Retriever 13French Bulldog 10Shih Tzu 10Maltese 9Dachshund 9
About these numbers

This comes from dog license records, not from a count of all dogs. The New York City health department estimates that around 80% of the city’s dogs are unlicensed, so these figures describe licensed dogs only. Rates are shown per 10,000 licensed dogs so that neighborhoods and years can be compared fairly, but a neighborhood where fewer people license their dogs may still be represented differently from one where more people do. Records are as supplied by the city and are not corrected for owner error.

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