PupCensus

Dog name · New York City

Max

2,666 licensed New York dogs are called Max, which makes it the 3rd most common dog name in the city. Dogs called Max are almost always male. The name is now 1.7x less common than it was fifteen years ago.

2,666Licensed New York dogs called Max
#3Rank among all dog names in the city
2007Peak year, by the dog’s year of birth
2%Of Maxs are female

Is Max getting more or less popular?

0 70 140 2005: 108 per 10,000 2006: 114.2 per 10,000 2007: 134.3 per 10,000 2008: 104.5 per 10,000 2009: 110.6 per 10,000 2010: 112.5 per 10,000 2011: 105.6 per 10,000 2012: 106.9 per 10,000 2013: 92.6 per 10,000 2014: 93 per 10,000 2015: 97.4 per 10,000 2016: 101.4 per 10,000 2017: 89.2 per 10,000 2018: 71.4 per 10,000 2019: 73.4 per 10,000 2020: 57.1 per 10,000 2021: 65.7 per 10,000 2022: 73.9 per 10,000 2023: 60.4 per 10,000 20052010201520202023
Dogs called Max, per 10,000, by the dog’s year of birth

Among dogs born in 2005, 108 in every 10,000 licensed New York dogs were called Max. For dogs born in 2023 it was 60.4. The name peaked with the 2007 litters.

Where Max is a Corona name

Max is 2.83x more common in Corona than across the city as a whole.

  • CoronaQueens 248.7
  • NorwoodThe Bronx 194.4
  • ElmhurstQueens 188.7
  • Jackson HeightsQueens 171.6
  • FordhamThe Bronx 164.5
  • ArrocharStaten Island 144.3

dogs called Max per 10,000 dogs in that ZIP code

Only ZIP codes with at least 1,500 licensed dogs are compared, so a small neighbourhood cannot produce a large number by accident.

What sort of dog gets called Max?

Shih Tzu 254Yorkshire Terrier 240Labrador Retriever 135Maltese 128Chihuahua 100German Shepherd Dog 75
About these numbers

This comes from dog licence records, not from a count of all dogs. The New York City health department estimates that around 80% of the city’s dogs are unlicensed, so these figures describe licensed dogs only. Rates are shown per 10,000 licensed dogs so that neighbourhoods and years can be compared fairly, but a neighbourhood where fewer people license their dogs may still be represented differently from one where more people do. Records are as supplied by the city and are not corrected for owner error.

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