Meaning and background
The story behind Cannoli
Cannoli offers a precise pastry association. Merriam-Webster describes a fried pastry tube filled with sweetened, flavoured ricotta and notes that the word is plural in form while functioning in English as either singular or plural. That makes a favourite dessert a concrete explanation for choosing Cannoli for a dog. The dictionary establishes the food reference and its English usage; it does not establish an inherited personal-name meaning.
- Association
- The fried pastry tube filled with sweetened, flavoured ricotta. Source
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About Cannoli
Recorded as a dog’s name
Cannoli appears in 33 dog licence records in the 2026 New York City dataset.
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Sources and research notes (1)
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.
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