PupCensus

Dog name · New York City

Bernie

151 licensed New York dogs are called Bernie, which makes it the 325th most common dog name in the city. Dogs called Bernie are almost always male.

151Licensed New York dogs called Bernie
#325Rank among all dog names in the city
2016Peak year, by the dog’s year of birth
13%Of Bernies are female

Is Bernie getting more or less popular?

0 10 20 2005: 9 per 10,000 2006: 11.9 per 10,000 2007: 3.7 per 10,000 2008: 5.3 per 10,000 2009: 0.9 per 10,000 2010: 2.4 per 10,000 2011: 7 per 10,000 2012: 4.8 per 10,000 2013: 5.5 per 10,000 2014: 3.7 per 10,000 2015: 3.4 per 10,000 2016: 12.1 per 10,000 2017: 4.7 per 10,000 2018: 2.3 per 10,000 2019: 5.5 per 10,000 2020: 5.9 per 10,000 2021: 1.9 per 10,000 2022: 3.1 per 10,000 2023: 5.8 per 10,000 20052010201520202023
Dogs called Bernie, per 10,000, by the dog’s year of birth

Among dogs born in 2005, 9 in every 10,000 licensed New York dogs were called Bernie. For dogs born in 2023 it was 5.8. The name peaked with the 2016 litters.

Where Bernie is a Greenpoint name

Bernie is 3.48x more common in Greenpoint than across the city as a whole.

Rarer here Commoner here shaded by times the citywide rate of 5
Shaded by how much more common Bernie is in each ZIP code than in the city as a whole. Unshaded areas have too few licensed dogs to compare.
  • GreenpointBrooklyn 17.4
  • RidgewoodQueens 15.2
  • Upper West SideManhattan 11.1
  • Upper East SideManhattan 10.4
  • Manhattan ValleyManhattan 9.3

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 Bernie?

Poodle 10Labrador Retriever 9Bernese Mountain Dog 9Shih Tzu 8Yorkshire Terrier 8Basset Hound 5
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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