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Dog name · New York City

Murphy

431 licensed New York dogs are called Murphy, which makes it the 92nd most common dog name in the city. Dogs called Murphy are almost always male.

431Licensed New York dogs called Murphy
#92Rank among all dog names in the city
2007Peak year, by the dog’s year of birth
17%Of Murphys are female

Is Murphy getting more or less popular?

0 15 30 2005: 18 per 10,000 2006: 11.9 per 10,000 2007: 20.8 per 10,000 2008: 12.7 per 10,000 2009: 14.7 per 10,000 2010: 9.7 per 10,000 2011: 7 per 10,000 2012: 19.9 per 10,000 2013: 16.6 per 10,000 2014: 14.3 per 10,000 2015: 17.8 per 10,000 2016: 11.2 per 10,000 2017: 13.8 per 10,000 2018: 12.1 per 10,000 2019: 11 per 10,000 2020: 19.8 per 10,000 2021: 9.4 per 10,000 2022: 15 per 10,000 2023: 17.4 per 10,000 20052010201520202023
Dogs called Murphy, per 10,000, by the dog’s year of birth

Among dogs born in 2005, 18 in every 10,000 licensed New York dogs were called Murphy. For dogs born in 2023 it was 17.4. The name peaked with the 2007 litters.

Where Murphy is a Bay Ridge name

Murphy is 3.14x more common in Bay Ridge than across the city as a whole.

  • Bay RidgeBrooklyn 44.7
  • InwoodManhattan 38.9
  • Upper East SideManhattan 31.2
  • Lenox HillManhattan 30.8
  • GramercyManhattan 30.7
  • Washington HeightsManhattan 29

dogs called Murphy 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 Murphy?

Labrador Retriever 45Poodle 23Golden Retriever 17Goldendoodle 17Terrier 16Yorkshire Terrier 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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