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Dog name · New York City

Mochi

425 licensed New York dogs are called Mochi, which makes it the 95th most common dog name in the city. Dogs called Mochi are evenly split. The name is now 2.5x more common than it was fifteen years ago.

425Licensed New York dogs called Mochi
#95Rank among all dog names in the city
2022Peak year, by the dog’s year of birth
52%Of Mochis are female

Is Mochi getting more or less popular?

0 15 30 2005: 0 per 10,000 2006: 0 per 10,000 2007: 3.7 per 10,000 2008: 2.1 per 10,000 2009: 9.2 per 10,000 2010: 12.2 per 10,000 2011: 10.1 per 10,000 2012: 11 per 10,000 2013: 4.9 per 10,000 2014: 5.8 per 10,000 2015: 8.7 per 10,000 2016: 12.5 per 10,000 2017: 10.4 per 10,000 2018: 24.3 per 10,000 2019: 15.7 per 10,000 2020: 26.8 per 10,000 2021: 24.6 per 10,000 2022: 27 per 10,000 2023: 17.4 per 10,000 20052010201520202023
Dogs called Mochi, 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 Mochi. For dogs born in 2023 it was 17.4. The name peaked with the 2022 litters.

Where Mochi is a Long Island City name

Mochi is 3.36x more common in Long Island City than across the city as a whole.

Rarer here Commoner here shaded by times the citywide rate of 14
Shaded by how much more common Mochi is in each ZIP code than in the city as a whole. Unshaded areas have too few licensed dogs to compare.
  • Long Island CityQueens 47.2
  • Chelsea and Hudson YardsManhattan 46.8
  • Forest HillsQueens 42
  • WilliamsburgBrooklyn 41.7
  • Murray HillManhattan 31.1
  • Washington HeightsManhattan 29.1

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 Mochi?

Shiba Inu 39Maltese 36Pomeranian 36Shih Tzu 30French Bulldog 23Yorkshire Terrier 20
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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