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Dog name · New York City

Gizmo

640 licensed New York dogs are called Gizmo, which makes it the 51st most common dog name in the city. Dogs called Gizmo are almost always male. The name is now 2.4x less common than it was fifteen years ago.

640Licensed New York dogs called Gizmo
#51Rank among all dog names in the city
2009Peak year, by the dog’s year of birth
8%Of Gizmos are female

Is Gizmo getting more or less popular?

0 20 40 2005: 36 per 10,000 2006: 31.2 per 10,000 2007: 36.7 per 10,000 2008: 35.9 per 10,000 2009: 36.9 per 10,000 2010: 34 per 10,000 2011: 25.7 per 10,000 2012: 24 per 10,000 2013: 29.5 per 10,000 2014: 23.8 per 10,000 2015: 22.6 per 10,000 2016: 20.1 per 10,000 2017: 13.8 per 10,000 2018: 16.7 per 10,000 2019: 15.7 per 10,000 2020: 15.8 per 10,000 2021: 11.8 per 10,000 2022: 10 per 10,000 2023: 10.8 per 10,000 20052010201520202023
Dogs called Gizmo, per 10,000, by the dog’s year of birth

Among dogs born in 2005, 36 in every 10,000 licensed New York dogs were called Gizmo. For dogs born in 2023 it was 10.8. The name peaked with the 2009 litters.

Where Gizmo is a Parkchester name

Gizmo is 3.34x more common in Parkchester than across the city as a whole.

Rarer here Commoner here shaded by times the citywide rate of 21
Shaded by how much more common Gizmo is in each ZIP code than in the city as a whole. Unshaded areas have too few licensed dogs to compare.
  • ParkchesterThe Bronx 70.6
  • Morris ParkThe Bronx 65.8
  • Throgs NeckThe Bronx 59.6
  • Cypress HillsBrooklyn 56.1
  • Sheepshead BayBrooklyn 54.8
  • East New YorkBrooklyn 54.4

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 Gizmo?

Shih Tzu 197Yorkshire Terrier 76Chihuahua 40Maltese 30Pomeranian 25French Bulldog 14
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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