Meaning and background
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Hearty is an English adjective whose ordinary uses include warm or enthusiastic, and substantial or nourishing, as with a hearty meal. Those are descriptions of the word's use, not measured traits of dogs called Hearty. The two-syllable form is distinctive without being hard to say. The profile should retain the word meaning and avoid inventing a separate ancestral origin for this spelling.
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About Hearty
Recorded as a dog’s name
Hearty appears in 3 dog licence records in the 2022 New York City dataset.
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Pronunciation and rhythm
/hɑɹti/
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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/hɑɹti/ · primary stress on syllable 1HH AA1 R T IY0
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Sources and research notes (2)
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene NYC Dog Licensing Dataset — all seven available extract years, retrieved 24 October 2026 — Recorded name spellings in NYC licence-period rows, extract years 2016–2018, 2022–2024 and 2026. Evidence selects one stated year per name. Annual snapshots overlap; never sum them as unique dogs. No national popularity, etymology or owner naming-intent claim.
- 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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