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Dog name · New York City

Mabel

196 licensed New York dogs are called Mabel, which makes it the 234th most common dog name in the city. Dogs called Mabel are almost always female. The name is now 1.4x more common than it was fifteen years ago.

196Licensed New York dogs called Mabel
#234Rank among all dog names in the city
2023Peak year, by the dog’s year of birth
100%Of Mabels are female

Is Mabel getting more or less popular?

0 10 20 2005: 3.6 per 10,000 2006: 0 per 10,000 2007: 3.7 per 10,000 2008: 4.2 per 10,000 2009: 2.8 per 10,000 2010: 5.7 per 10,000 2011: 5.4 per 10,000 2012: 10.3 per 10,000 2013: 6.1 per 10,000 2014: 6.9 per 10,000 2015: 8.2 per 10,000 2016: 6.7 per 10,000 2017: 6.5 per 10,000 2018: 5 per 10,000 2019: 5.1 per 10,000 2020: 8.1 per 10,000 2021: 8 per 10,000 2022: 6.9 per 10,000 2023: 10.8 per 10,000 20052010201520202023
Dogs called Mabel, 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 Mabel. For dogs born in 2023 it was 10.8. The name peaked with the 2023 litters.

Where Mabel is a Boerum Hill name

Mabel is 4.84x more common in Boerum Hill than across the city as a whole.

Rarer here Commoner here shaded by times the citywide rate of 6.5
Shaded by how much more common Mabel is in each ZIP code than in the city as a whole. Unshaded areas have too few licensed dogs to compare.
  • Boerum HillBrooklyn 31.4
  • Red HookBrooklyn 28.3
  • Prospect HeightsBrooklyn 21.8
  • WilliamsburgBrooklyn 21
  • KensingtonBrooklyn 21
  • Upper East SideManhattan 20.7

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 Mabel?

Beagle 12Chihuahua 11Labrador Retriever 11Poodle 9Goldendoodle 8Shih Tzu 6
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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