PupCensus

Dog name · New York City

Alfie

266 licensed New York dogs are called Alfie, which makes it the 161st most common dog name in the city. Dogs called Alfie are almost always male. The name is now 1.6x more common than it was fifteen years ago.

266Licensed New York dogs called Alfie
#161Rank among all dog names in the city
2021Peak year, by the dog’s year of birth
4%Of Alfies are female

Is Alfie getting more or less popular?

0 10 20 2005: 5.4 per 10,000 2006: 7.4 per 10,000 2007: 7.3 per 10,000 2008: 6.3 per 10,000 2009: 9.2 per 10,000 2010: 3.2 per 10,000 2011: 5.4 per 10,000 2012: 7.5 per 10,000 2013: 5.5 per 10,000 2014: 7.9 per 10,000 2015: 10.1 per 10,000 2016: 10.7 per 10,000 2017: 9.5 per 10,000 2018: 10.3 per 10,000 2019: 6.9 per 10,000 2020: 8.8 per 10,000 2021: 15.6 per 10,000 2022: 9.4 per 10,000 2023: 10.8 per 10,000 20052010201520202023
Dogs called Alfie, per 10,000, by the dog’s year of birth

Among dogs born in 2005, 5.4 in every 10,000 licensed New York dogs were called Alfie. For dogs born in 2023 it was 10.8. The name peaked with the 2021 litters.

Where Alfie is an Upper East Side name

Alfie is 3.32x more common in Upper East Side than across the city as a whole.

  • Upper East SideManhattan 29.1
  • Midtown EastManhattan 28.3
  • Hell's KitchenManhattan 23.2
  • Upper West SideManhattan 20.3
  • Red HookBrooklyn 20.1
  • Chelsea and Hudson YardsManhattan 19.5

dogs called Alfie 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 Alfie?

Chihuahua 27Labrador Retriever 15Labradoodle 11Shih Tzu 11Poodle 11Maltese 10
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.

All 984 dog names