PupCensus

Dog name · New York City

Poppy

297 licensed New York dogs are called Poppy, which makes it the 146th most common dog name in the city. Dogs called Poppy are almost always female. The name is now 3.9x more common than it was fifteen years ago.

297Licensed New York dogs called Poppy
#146Rank among all dog names in the city
2020Peak year, by the dog’s year of birth
89%Of Poppys are female

Is Poppy getting more or less popular?

0 15 30 2005: 9 per 10,000 2006: 4.5 per 10,000 2007: 3.7 per 10,000 2008: 1.1 per 10,000 2009: 8.3 per 10,000 2010: 3.2 per 10,000 2011: 4.7 per 10,000 2012: 4.1 per 10,000 2013: 3.7 per 10,000 2014: 4.8 per 10,000 2015: 7.7 per 10,000 2016: 7.6 per 10,000 2017: 10.8 per 10,000 2018: 9.9 per 10,000 2019: 11.1 per 10,000 2020: 20.6 per 10,000 2021: 16.6 per 10,000 2022: 17.6 per 10,000 2023: 18.2 per 10,000 20052010201520202023
Dogs called Poppy, per 10,000, by the dog’s year of birth

Among dogs born in 2005, 9 in every 10,000 licensed New York dogs were called Poppy. For dogs born in 2023 it was 18.2. The name peaked with the 2020 litters.

Where Poppy is an Upper East Side name

Poppy is 3.71x more common in Upper East Side than across the city as a whole.

Rarer here Commoner here shaded by times the citywide rate of 9.8
Shaded by how much more common Poppy is in each ZIP code than in the city as a whole. Unshaded areas have too few licensed dogs to compare.
  • Upper East SideManhattan 36.5
  • Red HookBrooklyn 32.3
  • Prospect HeightsBrooklyn 30
  • Upper East SideManhattan 26.9
  • Upper West SideManhattan 25
  • Midtown EastManhattan 24.3

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 Poppy?

Labrador Retriever 26Chihuahua 19Shih Tzu 18Poodle 17Goldendoodle 14Cavalier King Charles Spaniel 10
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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