PupCensus

Dog name · New York City

French

147 licensed New York dogs are called French, which makes it the 334th most common dog name in the city. Dogs called French are evenly split. The name is now 17.0x more common than it was fifteen years ago.

147Licensed New York dogs called French
#334Rank among all dog names in the city
2017Peak year, by the dog’s year of birth
41%Of Frenchs are female

Is French getting more or less popular?

0 15 30 2005: 0 per 10,000 2006: 0 per 10,000 2007: 0 per 10,000 2008: 0 per 10,000 2009: 0 per 10,000 2010: 0.8 per 10,000 2011: 0 per 10,000 2012: 0 per 10,000 2013: 0.6 per 10,000 2014: 0 per 10,000 2015: 0.5 per 10,000 2016: 14.7 per 10,000 2017: 29.7 per 10,000 2018: 10.8 per 10,000 2019: 1.8 per 10,000 2020: 2.2 per 10,000 2021: 2.4 per 10,000 2022: 1.3 per 10,000 2023: 0.8 per 10,000 20052010201520202023
Dogs called French, per 10,000, by the dog’s year of birth

Among dogs born in 2005, 0 in every 10,000 licensed New York dogs were called French. For dogs born in 2023 it was 0.8. The name peaked with the 2017 litters.

Where French is a West Village name

French is 3.99x more common in West Village than across the city as a whole.

  • West VillageManhattan 19.4
  • Hell's KitchenManhattan 11.6
  • ChelseaManhattan 10.4

dogs called French 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 French?

French Bulldog 130Bull Dog, French 5American Pit Bull Terrier 2Maltese 2Shih Tzu 1Poodle 1
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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