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Dog name · New York City

Rio

140 licensed New York dogs are called Rio, which makes it the 348th most common dog name in the city. Dogs called Rio are almost always male. The name is now 2.3x more common than it was fifteen years ago.

140Licensed New York dogs called Rio
#348Rank among all dog names in the city
2020Peak year, by the dog’s year of birth
20%Of Rios are female

Is Rio getting more or less popular?

0 10 20 2005: 5.4 per 10,000 2006: 3 per 10,000 2007: 1.2 per 10,000 2008: 3.2 per 10,000 2009: 2.8 per 10,000 2010: 3.2 per 10,000 2011: 3.1 per 10,000 2012: 2.7 per 10,000 2013: 2.5 per 10,000 2014: 1.6 per 10,000 2015: 3.8 per 10,000 2016: 4 per 10,000 2017: 3.4 per 10,000 2018: 4 per 10,000 2019: 6.4 per 10,000 2020: 11.7 per 10,000 2021: 6.1 per 10,000 2022: 5.6 per 10,000 2023: 5.8 per 10,000 20052010201520202023
Dogs called Rio, per 10,000, by the dog’s year of birth

Among dogs born in 2005, 5.4 in every 10,000 licensed New York dogs were called Rio. For dogs born in 2023 it was 5.8. The name peaked with the 2020 litters.

Where Rio is an East Village name

Rio is 4.4x more common in East Village than across the city as a whole.

  • East VillageManhattan 20.3
  • Upper East SideManhattan 19.4

dogs called Rio 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 Rio?

Labrador Retriever 14Shih Tzu 12Australian Shepherd 6Yorkshire Terrier 5Poodle 5Beagle 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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