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Dog name · New York City

Maya

425 licensed New York dogs are called Maya, which makes it the 94th most common dog name in the city. Dogs called Maya are almost always female. The name is now 1.2x less common than it was fifteen years ago.

425Licensed New York dogs called Maya
#94Rank among all dog names in the city
2006Peak year, by the dog’s year of birth
99%Of Mayas are female

Is Maya getting more or less popular?

0 15 30 2005: 18 per 10,000 2006: 20.8 per 10,000 2007: 18.3 per 10,000 2008: 13.7 per 10,000 2009: 13.8 per 10,000 2010: 13 per 10,000 2011: 10.9 per 10,000 2012: 14.4 per 10,000 2013: 14.1 per 10,000 2014: 11.6 per 10,000 2015: 15.8 per 10,000 2016: 13.9 per 10,000 2017: 11.6 per 10,000 2018: 19.8 per 10,000 2019: 12.9 per 10,000 2020: 14.3 per 10,000 2021: 12.8 per 10,000 2022: 11.9 per 10,000 2023: 11.6 per 10,000 20052010201520202023
Dogs called Maya, 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 Maya. For dogs born in 2023 it was 11.6. The name peaked with the 2006 litters.

Where Maya is a Washington Heights name

Maya is 2.48x more common in Washington Heights than across the city as a whole.

  • Washington HeightsManhattan 34.8
  • Hamilton HeightsManhattan 31.6
  • Jackson HeightsQueens 31.2
  • Bay RidgeBrooklyn 27.5
  • WilliamsburgBrooklyn 26.9
  • Manhattan ValleyManhattan 24.7

dogs called Maya 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 Maya?

Labrador Retriever 32Shih Tzu 25Yorkshire Terrier 25Chihuahua 21Siberian Husky 18Beagle 18
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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