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Dog name · New York City

Nellie

138 licensed New York dogs are called Nellie, which makes it the 356th most common dog name in the city. Dogs called Nellie are almost always female. The name is now 1.1x less common than it was fifteen years ago.

138Licensed New York dogs called Nellie
#356Rank among all dog names in the city
2015Peak year, by the dog’s year of birth
100%Of Nellies are female

Is Nellie getting more or less popular?

0 5 10 2005: 3.6 per 10,000 2006: 1.5 per 10,000 2007: 6.1 per 10,000 2008: 6.3 per 10,000 2009: 6.5 per 10,000 2010: 6.5 per 10,000 2011: 5.4 per 10,000 2012: 0.7 per 10,000 2013: 1.2 per 10,000 2014: 3.2 per 10,000 2015: 6.7 per 10,000 2016: 6.7 per 10,000 2017: 5.2 per 10,000 2018: 5.4 per 10,000 2019: 4.1 per 10,000 2020: 5.1 per 10,000 2021: 2.8 per 10,000 2022: 3.8 per 10,000 2023: 4.1 per 10,000 20052010201520202023
Dogs called Nellie, per 10,000, by the dog’s year of birth

Among dogs born in 2005, 3.6 in every 10,000 licensed New York dogs were called Nellie. For dogs born in 2023 it was 4.1. The name peaked with the 2015 litters.

Where Nellie is an Upper West Side name

Nellie is 3.65x more common in Upper West Side than across the city as a whole.

  • Upper West SideManhattan 16.6
  • Murray HillManhattan 12.9
  • Upper East SideManhattan 12.4
  • Park SlopeBrooklyn 9.8
  • Upper West SideManhattan 9.2
  • Brooklyn HeightsBrooklyn 8.4

dogs called Nellie 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 Nellie?

Labrador Retriever 17Beagle 8Golden Retriever 6Chihuahua 5Terrier 5Goldendoodle 5
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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