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Dog name · New York City

Shadow

640 licensed New York dogs are called Shadow, which makes it the 52nd most common dog name in the city. Dogs called Shadow are almost always male. The name is now 1.5x less common than it was fifteen years ago.

640Licensed New York dogs called Shadow
#52Rank among all dog names in the city
2007Peak year, by the dog’s year of birth
20%Of Shadows are female

Is Shadow getting more or less popular?

0 20 40 2005: 28.8 per 10,000 2006: 26.7 per 10,000 2007: 33 per 10,000 2008: 26.4 per 10,000 2009: 28.6 per 10,000 2010: 26.7 per 10,000 2011: 20.2 per 10,000 2012: 24.7 per 10,000 2013: 23.3 per 10,000 2014: 21.1 per 10,000 2015: 22.1 per 10,000 2016: 20.6 per 10,000 2017: 17.2 per 10,000 2018: 20.2 per 10,000 2019: 17.4 per 10,000 2020: 13.9 per 10,000 2021: 18.9 per 10,000 2022: 23.8 per 10,000 2023: 15.7 per 10,000 20052010201520202023
Dogs called Shadow, per 10,000, by the dog’s year of birth

Among dogs born in 2005, 28.8 in every 10,000 licensed New York dogs were called Shadow. For dogs born in 2023 it was 15.7. The name peaked with the 2007 litters.

Where Shadow is a Norwood name

Shadow is 2.53x more common in Norwood than across the city as a whole.

  • NorwoodThe Bronx 53.4
  • Washington HeightsManhattan 52.3
  • West FarmsThe Bronx 45.9
  • ElmhurstQueens 42.6
  • Castle HillThe Bronx 40.7
  • CoronaQueens 39.3

dogs called Shadow 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 Shadow?

Labrador Retriever 67Shih Tzu 46Siberian Husky 39American Pit Bull Terrier 39Yorkshire Terrier 33American Pit Bull 30
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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