Dog names from license records · Boston Terrier
These are the names owners actually gave their Boston Terriers, taken from city dog license records and counted one dog at a time. No suggestions, no made-up lists.
Source: dog license records from New York City, Seattle, Allegheny County, PA and Cambridge, MA, updated to Oct 2026.Ranked by the number of licensed Boston Terriers with each name. The figure beside each name is the dog count.
From registers that record sex (New York, Allegheny County and Cambridge). Seattle doesn't.
Each name's share among Boston Terriers, against its share among all 418,812 named dogs. “5.2×” means Buster is 5.2 times as common for a Boston Terrier as for the average dog.
Only four US registers publish each dog's name and breed together. 81% of these Boston Terriers are licensed in New York City, so the list leans towards New York tastes. Many owners never license their dog, so this is a large sample of licensed dogs, not a census.