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Dog name · New York City

Luna

2,815 licensed New York dogs are called Luna, which makes it the 2nd most common dog name in the city. Dogs called Luna are almost always female. The name is now 3.7x more common than it was fifteen years ago.

2,815Licensed New York dogs called Luna
#2Rank among all dog names in the city
2021Peak year, by the dog’s year of birth
99%Of Lunas are female

Is Luna getting more or less popular?

0 80 160 2005: 23.4 per 10,000 2006: 29.7 per 10,000 2007: 31.7 per 10,000 2008: 31.7 per 10,000 2009: 33.2 per 10,000 2010: 51 per 10,000 2011: 42.7 per 10,000 2012: 49.3 per 10,000 2013: 64.4 per 10,000 2014: 70.3 per 10,000 2015: 75.3 per 10,000 2016: 98.7 per 10,000 2017: 112.9 per 10,000 2018: 122.2 per 10,000 2019: 133.6 per 10,000 2020: 131.5 per 10,000 2021: 155 per 10,000 2022: 138.5 per 10,000 2023: 125 per 10,000 20052010201520202023
Dogs called Luna, per 10,000, by the dog’s year of birth

Among dogs born in 2005, 23.4 in every 10,000 licensed New York dogs were called Luna. For dogs born in 2023 it was 125. The name peaked with the 2021 litters.

Where Luna is a Corona name

Luna is 1.97x more common in Corona than across the city as a whole.

  • CoronaQueens 183.2
  • MorrisaniaThe Bronx 162.6
  • West FarmsThe Bronx 157.5
  • Morris ParkThe Bronx 151.3
  • InwoodManhattan 149.2
  • BushwickBrooklyn 142.3

dogs called Luna 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 Luna?

Shih Tzu 190Labrador Retriever 180Yorkshire Terrier 153Chihuahua 133Poodle 123Siberian Husky 110
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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