Saboda sha'awar Amurkawa kawai, nau'in husky ya wanzu har yau. Kalmar "husky" kanta ta fito ne daga kalmar Ingilishi da aka karkata a Amurka "Eski", ma'ana "Eskimo". Ranar farin ciki na shahararren Siberian huskies ya fadi a cikin 1930, abin da ake kira lokacin "girgizar zinariya".
A cikin Alaska, a cikin wahalar neman zinari, buƙatar karnuka masu ƙarfi sun karu sosai, kuma huskies sun sami damar tabbatar da kansu daga mafi kyawun gefe. Karnukan ƴaƴan leƙen asiri, kama da kerkecin daji, sun kasance masu son Amurkawa har suka mai da su wata taska ta ƙasa, ta sa su shahara a duniya. Duk da haka, don kada wanda ya manta da ƙasarsu, an yi wa huskies laƙabi da Siberian.