PupCensus

Dog name · New York City

Penny

1,135 licensed New York dogs are called Penny, which makes it the 19th most common dog name in the city. Dogs called Penny are almost always female.

1,135Licensed New York dogs called Penny
#19Rank among all dog names in the city
2015Peak year, by the dog’s year of birth
99%Of Pennys are female

Is Penny getting more or less popular?

0 25 50 2005: 23.4 per 10,000 2006: 23.7 per 10,000 2007: 33 per 10,000 2008: 22.2 per 10,000 2009: 35 per 10,000 2010: 37.2 per 10,000 2011: 41.2 per 10,000 2012: 41.8 per 10,000 2013: 44.8 per 10,000 2014: 35.4 per 10,000 2015: 47 per 10,000 2016: 38.9 per 10,000 2017: 35.8 per 10,000 2018: 43.6 per 10,000 2019: 34.4 per 10,000 2020: 37.4 per 10,000 2021: 38.7 per 10,000 2022: 38.8 per 10,000 2023: 28.1 per 10,000 20052010201520202023
Dogs called Penny, 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 Penny. For dogs born in 2023 it was 28.1. The name peaked with the 2015 litters.

Where Penny is a Williamsburg name

Penny is 2.11x more common in Williamsburg than across the city as a whole.

  • WilliamsburgBrooklyn 79.2
  • Midtown EastManhattan 72.7
  • Upper East SideManhattan 70.3
  • Boerum HillBrooklyn 69.1
  • GramercyManhattan 64.7
  • RidgewoodQueens 63.7

dogs called Penny 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 Penny?

Labrador Retriever 91Chihuahua 77Shih Tzu 45Poodle 44Cavalier King Charles Spaniel 40Beagle 40
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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