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June 3, 2004

Popular NYC Dog Names, 2004

Miles the dogPossibly more critical than naming your baby (although you might have to holler your kid's name with as much frequency), naming a dog is a big deal. The Department of Health announces the most popular dog names for 2004, and the list is pretty much as it was last year: (1) Max, (2) Lucky, (3) Princess, (4) Rocky, (5) Buddy, (6) Lady, (7) Shadow, (8) Coco, (9) Daisy, and (10) Lucy. However, the DOH only had information on names from licensed dogs, which might only be about 20% of all NYC dogs. So get your dog licensed!

Other facts singled out by the DOH:
- Food names: Oreo, Brownie, Honey, Cocoa and Peanut
- Girl names: Rosie, Xena, Buffy, Samantha, Sophie, Emma and Tiffany
- Mixed breeds are the most popular, followed by labrador retriever, shepherd, pit bull, Shih-Tzu, Chihuahua, Yorkshire terrier, poodle, Maltese and cocker spaniel

New Yorkish on hot [human] baby names in 2004 and daddytypes on baby names. And Gothamist will look for any reason to re-run this photo of Miles the dog getting bark-mitzvahed, because if a dog in a yarmulke isn't funny, then nothing on this Earth is.

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Comments (7)

cute pooch...is he having a bark mitzvah? oh, i kill me.

 

Miles should hang out with Uncle Irving.

 

Jen- regarding baby names, you really should include our beloved UrbanBaby message boards where 1000's of us trash names everyday -Maria

 

Woof

 

Data mining on demand! Here's a list of names that occur on both the NYC top 100 dog names and the (nationwide) top 100 baby names:

Emma (#2 for human girls, #95 for dogs)
Madison (#3 for human girls, #88 for dogs)
Samantha (#10 for human girls, #37 for dogs)
Chloe (#24 for human girls, #59 for dogs)
Angel (#43 for human boys, #40 for dogs)
Jack (#46 for human boys, #25 for dogs)

Draw your own conclusions, I guess ...

 

I love when dogs have people names like Ernie, or Fred but then again it's also fun giving names like Ree-Run or Kermit. Check this link for more interesting NYC dog walker resources, NYC animal welfare resources and a great NYC dog blog

 

NY DOG NY DOG Service offering dog walking and petsitting to busy New yorkers.

 
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