Yorkshire Terrier names, counted from 24,600 licensed dogs
These are the names owners actually gave their Yorkshire 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.
Bella
is the most common Yorkshire Terrier name: 404 dogs, about 1 in 55
24,600Yorkshire Terriers in the four license registers
22,098of them with a usable name
Bellamost common female name
Maxmost common male name
The 30 most common Yorkshire Terrier names
Ranked by the number of licensed Yorkshire Terriers with each name. The figure beside each name is the dog count.
- 1Bella404
- 2Coco309
- 3Max281
- 4Rocky208
- 5Teddy190
- 6Princess182
- 7Luna177
- 8Milo177
- 9Lola159
- 10Prince158
- 11Lucky153
- 12Mia149
- 13Charlie144
- 14Chloe139
- 15Toby134
- 16Benji122
- 17Daisy119
- 18Bentley117
- 19Bailey107
- 20Buddy104
- 21Cookie104
- 22Leo102
- 23Lucy96
- 24Brownie93
- 25Gizmo87
- 26Oliver82
- 27Chewy79
- 28King77
- 29Chase76
- 30Zoey76
Female and male Yorkshire Terrier names
From registers that record sex (New York, Allegheny County and Cambridge). Seattle doesn't.
Female Yorkshire Terriers, top 10
- 1Bella403
- 2Coco212
- 3Princess179
- 4Luna175
- 5Lola157
- 6Mia147
- 7Chloe137
- 8Daisy118
- 9Lucy94
- 10Cookie78
Male Yorkshire Terriers, top 10
- 1Max275
- 2Rocky202
- 3Teddy182
- 4Milo175
- 5Prince157
- 6Lucky139
- 7Toby132
- 8Charlie131
- 9Benji120
- 10Bentley116
Names Yorkshire Terrier owners choose far more than other owners
Each name's share among Yorkshire Terriers, against its share among all 418,812 named dogs. “17.4×” means Yorkiepoo is 17.4 times as common for a Yorkshire Terrier as for the average dog.
- Yorkiepoo17.4× usual · 23 dogs
- Johnson8.4× usual · 15 dogs
- Rodriguez7.4× usual · 30 dogs
- Lopez5.9× usual · 16 dogs
- Tinkerbell4.1× usual · 21 dogs
- Dior3.8× usual · 43 dogs
- Puppy3.8× usual · 27 dogs
- Gucci3.6× usual · 59 dogs
- Chanel3.5× usual · 57 dogs
- Kash3.4× usual · 18 dogs
- Pebbles3.4× usual · 62 dogs
- Fendi3.4× usual · 26 dogs
