Food names are the fastest-growing habit in the registers and the easiest to get right: they are short, they end in vowels, and nobody has to ask you to spell them twice. Mochi, Miso, Pepper, Oreo — all of them near the top of the counts.
Each one names something
The tag records the dish or ingredient — Japanese rice cake for Mochi, fermented soybean paste for Miso — which is what separates a food name from a name that merely sounds edible.
Sweet and short
The shortest food names are the ones that survive being shouted.
Every count on this site is a tally of real registrations: pet licences and shelter intakes published as open data by New York, Seattle, Austin, Montgomery County, Cambridge, Zurich, Basel and three Australian councils. Popularity here is the average share a name holds across those registers, so a name common in a small city is not buried by one common in a large one. Nine of the eleven sources are North American, so read the ordering as naming in those places rather than worldwide.