Dog name · New York City
Bella
3,178 licensed New York dogs are called Bella, which makes it the 1st most common dog name in the city. Dogs called Bella are almost always female. The name is now 1.4x less common than it was fifteen years ago.
Is Bella getting more or less popular?
Among dogs born in 2005, 117.1 in every 10,000 licensed New York dogs were called Bella. For dogs born in 2023 it was 84.5. The name peaked with the 2010 litters.
Where Bella is a Stapleton name
Bella is 1.91x more common in Stapleton than across the city as a whole.
dogs called Bella 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. Bella is spread fairly evenly across the city, so there is no map here: it would be one flat colour.
What sort of dog gets called Bella?
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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