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Dog name · New York City

Holly

239 licensed New York dogs are called Holly, which makes it the 182nd most common dog name in the city. Dogs called Holly are almost always female. The name is now 2.0x less common than it was fifteen years ago.

239Licensed New York dogs called Holly
#182Rank among all dog names in the city
2007Peak year, by the dog’s year of birth
99%Of Hollys are female

Is Holly getting more or less popular?

0 15 30 2005: 16.2 per 10,000 2006: 8.9 per 10,000 2007: 20.8 per 10,000 2008: 7.4 per 10,000 2009: 6.5 per 10,000 2010: 8.1 per 10,000 2011: 11.6 per 10,000 2012: 8.9 per 10,000 2013: 9.2 per 10,000 2014: 11.6 per 10,000 2015: 11 per 10,000 2016: 5.4 per 10,000 2017: 5.6 per 10,000 2018: 8.1 per 10,000 2019: 6.9 per 10,000 2020: 2.9 per 10,000 2021: 4.7 per 10,000 2022: 7.5 per 10,000 2023: 5.8 per 10,000 20052010201520202023
Dogs called Holly, per 10,000, by the dog’s year of birth

Among dogs born in 2005, 16.2 in every 10,000 licensed New York dogs were called Holly. For dogs born in 2023 it was 5.8. The name peaked with the 2007 litters.

Where Holly is a Sheepshead Bay name

Holly is 5.65x more common in Sheepshead Bay than across the city as a whole.

  • Sheepshead BayBrooklyn 44.6
  • New DorpStaten Island 25.6
  • AnnadaleStaten Island 21.9
  • Marine ParkBrooklyn 20.7
  • New SpringvilleStaten Island 17.8
  • Park SlopeBrooklyn 15.6

dogs called Holly 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 Holly?

Labrador Retriever 20Chihuahua 15Shih Tzu 15Yorkshire Terrier 12Terrier 8Maltese 8
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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