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Dog name · New York City

King

724 licensed New York dogs are called King, which makes it the 42nd most common dog name in the city. Dogs called King are almost always male. The name is now 1.4x more common than it was fifteen years ago.

724Licensed New York dogs called King
#42Rank among all dog names in the city
2015Peak year, by the dog’s year of birth
1%Of Kings are female

Is King getting more or less popular?

0 25 50 2005: 12.6 per 10,000 2006: 14.8 per 10,000 2007: 8.5 per 10,000 2008: 16.9 per 10,000 2009: 17.5 per 10,000 2010: 21.9 per 10,000 2011: 22.5 per 10,000 2012: 15.1 per 10,000 2013: 27.6 per 10,000 2014: 33.8 per 10,000 2015: 40.8 per 10,000 2016: 27.3 per 10,000 2017: 25.4 per 10,000 2018: 23.8 per 10,000 2019: 23.9 per 10,000 2020: 16.5 per 10,000 2021: 26.5 per 10,000 2022: 19.4 per 10,000 2023: 29.8 per 10,000 20052010201520202023
Dogs called King, per 10,000, by the dog’s year of birth

Among dogs born in 2005, 12.6 in every 10,000 licensed New York dogs were called King. For dogs born in 2023 it was 29.8. The name peaked with the 2015 litters.

Where King is a Morrisania name

King is 3.89x more common in Morrisania than across the city as a whole.

  • MorrisaniaThe Bronx 92.9
  • West FarmsThe Bronx 78.7
  • CanarsieBrooklyn 73
  • SoundviewThe Bronx 71.5
  • East New YorkBrooklyn 67.9
  • Bedford-StuyvesantBrooklyn 67.4

dogs called King 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 King?

American Pit Bull Terrier 85Yorkshire Terrier 75American Pit Bull 72Shih Tzu 41German Shepherd Dog 24Labrador Retriever 22
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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