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Dog name · New York City

Kobe

436 licensed New York dogs are called Kobe, which makes it the 91st most common dog name in the city. Dogs called Kobe are almost always male. The name is now 2.5x more common than it was fifteen years ago.

436Licensed New York dogs called Kobe
#91Rank among all dog names in the city
2020Peak year, by the dog’s year of birth
3%Of Kobes are female

Is Kobe getting more or less popular?

0 20 40 2005: 3.6 per 10,000 2006: 13.4 per 10,000 2007: 3.7 per 10,000 2008: 6.3 per 10,000 2009: 12 per 10,000 2010: 12.1 per 10,000 2011: 7.8 per 10,000 2012: 9.6 per 10,000 2013: 6.1 per 10,000 2014: 9.5 per 10,000 2015: 13 per 10,000 2016: 10.3 per 10,000 2017: 14.2 per 10,000 2018: 13 per 10,000 2019: 18.8 per 10,000 2020: 35.2 per 10,000 2021: 17 per 10,000 2022: 22.6 per 10,000 2023: 12.4 per 10,000 20052010201520202023
Dogs called Kobe, per 10,000, by the dog’s year of birth

Among dogs born in 2005, 3.6 in every 10,000 licensed New York dogs were called Kobe. For dogs born in 2023 it was 12.4. The name peaked with the 2020 litters.

Where Kobe is a Parkchester name

Kobe is 3.37x more common in Parkchester than across the city as a whole.

  • ParkchesterThe Bronx 48.5
  • Castle HillThe Bronx 40.7
  • Financial DistrictManhattan 36.9
  • Forest HillsQueens 34.3
  • CharlestonStaten Island 29.9
  • Brighton BeachBrooklyn 26.5

dogs called Kobe 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 Kobe?

Shih Tzu 51Yorkshire Terrier 40Shiba Inu 21Labrador Retriever 19Maltese 15Poodle 15
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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