PupCensus

Dog name · New York City

Charlie

2,388 licensed New York dogs are called Charlie, which makes it the 4th most common dog name in the city. Dogs called Charlie are almost always male. The name is now 1.3x less common than it was fifteen years ago.

2,388Licensed New York dogs called Charlie
#4Rank among all dog names in the city
2005Peak year, by the dog’s year of birth
15%Of Charlies are female

Is Charlie getting more or less popular?

0 60 120 2005: 115.2 per 10,000 2006: 62.3 per 10,000 2007: 92.8 per 10,000 2008: 81.2 per 10,000 2009: 82 per 10,000 2010: 82.6 per 10,000 2011: 80.8 per 10,000 2012: 87.7 per 10,000 2013: 87.1 per 10,000 2014: 90.4 per 10,000 2015: 89.2 per 10,000 2016: 91.1 per 10,000 2017: 62.5 per 10,000 2018: 78.2 per 10,000 2019: 72.5 per 10,000 2020: 74.4 per 10,000 2021: 67.6 per 10,000 2022: 65.8 per 10,000 2023: 62.1 per 10,000 20052010201520202023
Dogs called Charlie, per 10,000, by the dog’s year of birth

Among dogs born in 2005, 115.2 in every 10,000 licensed New York dogs were called Charlie. For dogs born in 2023 it was 62.1. The name peaked with the 2005 litters.

Where Charlie is a Brighton Beach name

Charlie is 1.68x more common in Brighton Beach than across the city as a whole.

  • Brighton BeachBrooklyn 132.3
  • Upper East SideManhattan 130.3
  • Forest HillsQueens 129.6
  • Upper East SideManhattan 124.9
  • AstoriaQueens 123.8
  • Hell's KitchenManhattan 118.2

dogs called Charlie 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 Charlie?

Shih Tzu 165Labrador Retriever 153Chihuahua 122Yorkshire Terrier 118Cavalier King Charles Spaniel 108Poodle 104
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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