Dog names from license records · Shiba Inu

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Shiba Inu names, counted from 5,019 licensed dogs

These are the names owners actually gave their Shiba Inus, 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.
Mochi is the most common Shiba Inu name: 42 dogs, about 1 in 98
5,019Shiba Inus in the four license registers
4,110of them with a usable name
Lunamost common female name
Maxmost common male name

The 30 most common Shiba Inu names

Ranked by the number of licensed Shiba Inus with each name. The figure beside each name is the dog count.

  1. 1Mochi42
  2. 2Max39
  3. 3Yoshi38
  4. 4Yuki38
  5. 5Kuma36
  6. 6Luna36
  7. 7Bella24
  8. 8Kobe22
  9. 9Hiro21
  10. 10Charlie20
  11. 11Foxy20
  12. 12Hachi20
  13. 13Rocky20
  14. 14Kitsune18
  15. 15Milo18
  16. 16Miso18
  17. 17Momo18
  18. 18Hunter17
  19. 19Mia17
  20. 20Nala17
  21. 21Kenji16
  22. 22Leo16
  23. 23Loki15
  24. 24Simba15
  25. 25Lucky14
  26. 26Niko14
  27. 27Ruby14
  28. 28Toby14
  29. 29Cooper13
  30. 30Haru13

Female and male Shiba Inu names

From registers that record sex (New York, Allegheny County and Cambridge). Seattle doesn't.

Female Shiba Inus, top 10

  1. 1Luna35
  2. 2Bella24
  3. 3Yuki20
  4. 4Foxy18
  5. 5Mochi18
  6. 6Nala17
  7. 7Mia16
  8. 8Ruby14
  9. 9Zoe12
  10. 10Daisy11

Male Shiba Inus, top 10

  1. 1Max39
  2. 2Yoshi35
  3. 3Kuma25
  4. 4Mochi22
  5. 5Kobe21
  6. 6Hiro20
  7. 7Rocky20
  8. 8Hachi18
  9. 9Milo18
  10. 10Hunter17

Names Shiba Inu owners choose far more than other owners

Each name's share among Shiba Inus, against its share among all 418,812 named dogs. “61.1×” means Kitsune is 61.1 times as common for a Shiba Inu as for the average dog.

  • Kitsune61.1× usual · 18 dogs
  • Hiro32.9× usual · 21 dogs
  • Kenji29.1× usual · 16 dogs
  • Kuma27× usual · 36 dogs
  • Hachi21.2× usual · 20 dogs
  • Yuki20.1× usual · 38 dogs
  • Yoshi16.3× usual · 38 dogs
  • Miso10.5× usual · 18 dogs
  • Foxy8.6× usual · 20 dogs
  • Mochi7.7× usual · 42 dogs
  • Momo6.7× usual · 18 dogs
  • Kobe4.1× usual · 22 dogs

How far these Shiba Inu names can be trusted

Four places, not the whole country

Only four US registers publish each dog's name and breed together. 93% of these Shiba Inus 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.

Names for other breeds

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Sources for these figures