Meaning and background
The story behind Bingo
Bingo is unusually apt as a dog name because the name appears in the traditional song about a farmer’s dog. A documented version of “Little Bingo” was performed around 1780, according to a folk-song archive. The same spelling now names a numbers game and serves as an exclamation of discovery, but the game word has disputed origins. Those meanings and the old song should be distinguished rather than rolled into one invented derivation.
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About Bingo
Recorded as a dog’s name
Bingo appears in 35 dog licence records in the 2026 New York City dataset.
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Pronunciation and rhythm
/bɪŋɡoʊ/
US English sound sequence, converted from the CMU dictionary. Stress marks are shown separately.
Stress on the first syllable in the recorded US readings.
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/bɪŋɡoʊ/ · primary stress on syllable 1B IH1 NG G OW0
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Sources and research notes (2)
Gender association: NYC licence-period records. Any dog can use this name.
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene NYC Dog Licensing Dataset — extract_year 2026 — Dog licence periods, not unique dogs; NYC only. No owner-level fields retrieved.
- Carnegie Mellon University / CMU Sphinx maintainers CMU US English Pronouncing Dictionary — US English dictionary readings; not owner-specific or exhaustive multilingual pronunciation
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