Dog name · New York City
Rosie
893 licensed New York dogs are called Rosie, which makes it the 32nd most common dog name in the city. Dogs called Rosie are almost always female. The name is now 1.4x more common than it was fifteen years ago.
Is Rosie getting more or less popular?
Among dogs born in 2005, 19.8 in every 10,000 licensed New York dogs were called Rosie. For dogs born in 2023 it was 30.6. The name peaked with the 2019 litters.
Where Rosie is an Upper West Side name
Rosie is 2.47x more common in Upper West Side than across the city as a whole.
dogs called Rosie 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 Rosie?
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.