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Dog name · New York City

Finn

402 licensed New York dogs are called Finn, which makes it the 105th most common dog name in the city. Dogs called Finn are almost always male. The name is now 2.7x more common than it was fifteen years ago.

402Licensed New York dogs called Finn
#105Rank among all dog names in the city
2018Peak year, by the dog’s year of birth
4%Of Finns are female

Is Finn getting more or less popular?

0 15 30 2005: 1.8 per 10,000 2006: 3 per 10,000 2007: 3.7 per 10,000 2008: 4.2 per 10,000 2009: 6.5 per 10,000 2010: 10.5 per 10,000 2011: 7.8 per 10,000 2012: 7.5 per 10,000 2013: 10.4 per 10,000 2014: 13.2 per 10,000 2015: 13.4 per 10,000 2016: 16.1 per 10,000 2017: 15.9 per 10,000 2018: 22 per 10,000 2019: 20.7 per 10,000 2020: 18.7 per 10,000 2021: 14.6 per 10,000 2022: 10.7 per 10,000 2023: 12.4 per 10,000 20052010201520202023
Dogs called Finn, per 10,000, by the dog’s year of birth

Among dogs born in 2005, 1.8 in every 10,000 licensed New York dogs were called Finn. For dogs born in 2023 it was 12.4. The name peaked with the 2018 litters.

Where Finn is a Red Hook name

Finn is 2.73x more common in Red Hook than across the city as a whole.

  • Red HookBrooklyn 36.2
  • Alphabet CityManhattan 34.9
  • St. GeorgeStaten Island 32.9
  • Forest HillsQueens 30.5
  • Upper East SideManhattan 29.5
  • KensingtonBrooklyn 29.4

dogs called Finn per 10,000 dogs in that ZIP code

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

What sort of dog gets called Finn?

Labrador Retriever 39Poodle 21Golden Retriever 20Chihuahua 12Goldendoodle 11Australian Shepherd 10
About these numbers

This comes from dog licence 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 neighbourhoods and years can be compared fairly, but a neighbourhood 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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