PupCensus

Dog name · New York City

Nova

361 licensed New York dogs are called Nova, which makes it the 119th most common dog name in the city. Dogs called Nova are almost always female. The name is now 7.4x more common than it was fifteen years ago.

361Licensed New York dogs called Nova
#119Rank among all dog names in the city
2023Peak year, by the dog’s year of birth
88%Of Novas are female

Is Nova 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: 3.2 per 10,000 2009: 0.9 per 10,000 2010: 2.4 per 10,000 2011: 2.3 per 10,000 2012: 6.2 per 10,000 2013: 6.8 per 10,000 2014: 11.7 per 10,000 2015: 6.3 per 10,000 2016: 8.5 per 10,000 2017: 13.4 per 10,000 2018: 15.8 per 10,000 2019: 12 per 10,000 2020: 21.3 per 10,000 2021: 21.8 per 10,000 2022: 27 per 10,000 2023: 29 per 10,000 20052010201520202023
Dogs called Nova, 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 Nova. For dogs born in 2023 it was 29. The name peaked with the 2023 litters.

Where Nova is an East New York name

Nova is 2.66x more common in East New York than across the city as a whole.

Rarer here Commoner here shaded by times the citywide rate of 12
Shaded by how much more common Nova is in each ZIP code than in the city as a whole. Unshaded areas have too few licensed dogs to compare.
  • East New YorkBrooklyn 31.8
  • ElmhurstQueens 30.5
  • Morris ParkThe Bronx 30.3
  • AstoriaQueens 26.2
  • New DorpStaten Island 25.7
  • NorwoodThe Bronx 24.4

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 Nova?

American Pit Bull Terrier 41Labrador Retriever 24Shih Tzu 17German Shepherd 16Yorkshire Terrier 16Siberian Husky 16
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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