PupCensus

Dog name · New York City

Ruby

928 licensed New York dogs are called Ruby, which makes it the 25th most common dog name in the city. Dogs called Ruby are almost always female.

928Licensed New York dogs called Ruby
#25Rank among all dog names in the city
2017Peak year, by the dog’s year of birth
98%Of Rubys are female

Is Ruby getting more or less popular?

0 20 40 2005: 30.6 per 10,000 2006: 31.2 per 10,000 2007: 35.4 per 10,000 2008: 20.1 per 10,000 2009: 29.5 per 10,000 2010: 31.6 per 10,000 2011: 30.3 per 10,000 2012: 28.8 per 10,000 2013: 32 per 10,000 2014: 31.8 per 10,000 2015: 27.4 per 10,000 2016: 27.8 per 10,000 2017: 36.7 per 10,000 2018: 31.1 per 10,000 2019: 28.1 per 10,000 2020: 36.7 per 10,000 2021: 33.1 per 10,000 2022: 25.7 per 10,000 2023: 27.3 per 10,000 20052010201520202023
Dogs called Ruby, per 10,000, by the dog’s year of birth

Among dogs born in 2005, 30.6 in every 10,000 licensed New York dogs were called Ruby. For dogs born in 2023 it was 27.3. The name peaked with the 2017 litters.

Where Ruby is a Williamsburg name

Ruby is 2.24x more common in Williamsburg than across the city as a whole.

Rarer here Commoner here shaded by times the citywide rate of 31
Shaded by how much more common Ruby is in each ZIP code than in the city as a whole. Unshaded areas have too few licensed dogs to compare.
  • WilliamsburgBrooklyn 68.9
  • Upper West SideManhattan 61
  • GramercyManhattan 58
  • Boerum HillBrooklyn 56.5
  • Red HookBrooklyn 56.5
  • Manhattan ValleyManhattan 55.7

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 Ruby?

Labrador Retriever 53Poodle 42Goldendoodle 40American Pit Bull Terrier 37Chihuahua 37Yorkshire Terrier 33
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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