PupCensus

Dog name · New York City

Harley

574 licensed New York dogs are called Harley, which makes it the 58th most common dog name in the city. Dogs called Harley are evenly split.

574Licensed New York dogs called Harley
#58Rank among all dog names in the city
2016Peak year, by the dog’s year of birth
59%Of Harleys are female

Is Harley getting more or less popular?

0 15 30 2005: 18 per 10,000 2006: 13.4 per 10,000 2007: 9.8 per 10,000 2008: 21.1 per 10,000 2009: 17.5 per 10,000 2010: 17.8 per 10,000 2011: 15.5 per 10,000 2012: 21.2 per 10,000 2013: 11 per 10,000 2014: 18 per 10,000 2015: 28.3 per 10,000 2016: 29.5 per 10,000 2017: 20.3 per 10,000 2018: 22.5 per 10,000 2019: 17.4 per 10,000 2020: 21.6 per 10,000 2021: 13.7 per 10,000 2022: 11.9 per 10,000 2023: 13.2 per 10,000 20052010201520202023
Dogs called Harley, per 10,000, by the dog’s year of birth

Among dogs born in 2005, 18 in every 10,000 licensed New York dogs were called Harley. For dogs born in 2023 it was 13.2. The name peaked with the 2016 litters.

Where Harley is a Charleston name

Harley is 3.15x more common in Charleston than across the city as a whole.

  • CharlestonStaten Island 59.7
  • New SpringvilleStaten Island 59.5
  • ArrocharStaten Island 57.7
  • Great KillsStaten Island 52.2
  • Morris ParkThe Bronx 45.4
  • Sheepshead BayBrooklyn 39.6

dogs called Harley 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 Harley?

Labrador Retriever 45American Pit Bull 37Shih Tzu 29Yorkshire Terrier 27German Shepherd Dog 21Chihuahua 21
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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