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Dog name · New York City

Sparky

320 licensed New York dogs are called Sparky, which makes it the 136th most common dog name in the city. Dogs called Sparky are almost always male. The name is now 4.2x less common than it was fifteen years ago.

320Licensed New York dogs called Sparky
#136Rank among all dog names in the city
2008Peak year, by the dog’s year of birth
5%Of Sparkys are female

Is Sparky getting more or less popular?

0 15 30 2005: 27 per 10,000 2006: 20.8 per 10,000 2007: 28.1 per 10,000 2008: 28.5 per 10,000 2009: 20.3 per 10,000 2010: 17.8 per 10,000 2011: 7.8 per 10,000 2012: 11.6 per 10,000 2013: 19.6 per 10,000 2014: 9 per 10,000 2015: 10.1 per 10,000 2016: 9.8 per 10,000 2017: 8.6 per 10,000 2018: 6.3 per 10,000 2019: 1.4 per 10,000 2020: 5.1 per 10,000 2021: 2.8 per 10,000 2022: 7.5 per 10,000 2023: 7.4 per 10,000 20052010201520202023
Dogs called Sparky, per 10,000, by the dog’s year of birth

Among dogs born in 2005, 27 in every 10,000 licensed New York dogs were called Sparky. For dogs born in 2023 it was 7.4. The name peaked with the 2008 litters.

Where Sparky is a Corona name

Sparky is 3.72x more common in Corona than across the city as a whole.

  • CoronaQueens 39.3
  • ParkchesterThe Bronx 35.3
  • Morris ParkThe Bronx 30.3
  • New SpringvilleStaten Island 26.8
  • Sunset ParkBrooklyn 25.4
  • Sheepshead BayBrooklyn 24.8

dogs called Sparky 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 Sparky?

Yorkshire Terrier 46Shih Tzu 37Maltese 24Chihuahua 20Pomeranian 11Jack Russell Terrier 8
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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