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Dog name · New York City

Brownie

540 licensed New York dogs are called Brownie, which makes it the 73rd most common dog name in the city. Dogs called Brownie are more often male.

540Licensed New York dogs called Brownie
#73Rank among all dog names in the city
2023Peak year, by the dog’s year of birth
29%Of Brownies are female

Is Brownie getting more or less popular?

0 15 30 2005: 21.6 per 10,000 2006: 25.2 per 10,000 2007: 18.3 per 10,000 2008: 15.8 per 10,000 2009: 16.6 per 10,000 2010: 19.4 per 10,000 2011: 18.6 per 10,000 2012: 19.2 per 10,000 2013: 19 per 10,000 2014: 20.1 per 10,000 2015: 14.9 per 10,000 2016: 17 per 10,000 2017: 13.8 per 10,000 2018: 14.8 per 10,000 2019: 16.1 per 10,000 2020: 16.1 per 10,000 2021: 18 per 10,000 2022: 22.6 per 10,000 2023: 25.7 per 10,000 20052010201520202023
Dogs called Brownie, per 10,000, by the dog’s year of birth

Among dogs born in 2005, 21.6 in every 10,000 licensed New York dogs were called Brownie. For dogs born in 2023 it was 25.7. The name peaked with the 2023 litters.

Where Brownie is a Castle Hill name

Brownie is 3.43x more common in Castle Hill than across the city as a whole.

  • Castle HillThe Bronx 61.1
  • CoronaQueens 58.9
  • FordhamThe Bronx 46.1
  • West FarmsThe Bronx 45.9
  • Cypress HillsBrooklyn 44.7
  • NorwoodThe Bronx 43.7

dogs called Brownie 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 Brownie?

Yorkshire Terrier 83Shih Tzu 58Chihuahua 57Poodle 24Pomeranian 17Labrador Retriever 14
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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