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Dog name · New York City

Maximus

319 licensed New York dogs are called Maximus, which makes it the 138th most common dog name in the city. Dogs called Maximus are almost always male. The name is now 1.9x less common than it was fifteen years ago.

319Licensed New York dogs called Maximus
#138Rank among all dog names in the city
2008Peak year, by the dog’s year of birth
0%Of Maximuss are female

Is Maximus getting more or less popular?

0 15 30 2005: 10.8 per 10,000 2006: 4.5 per 10,000 2007: 8.5 per 10,000 2008: 23.2 per 10,000 2009: 11.1 per 10,000 2010: 13.8 per 10,000 2011: 12.4 per 10,000 2012: 14.4 per 10,000 2013: 15.9 per 10,000 2014: 15.3 per 10,000 2015: 10.6 per 10,000 2016: 9.8 per 10,000 2017: 12.1 per 10,000 2018: 9.4 per 10,000 2019: 9.2 per 10,000 2020: 6.6 per 10,000 2021: 7.1 per 10,000 2022: 3.8 per 10,000 2023: 6.6 per 10,000 20052010201520202023
Dogs called Maximus, per 10,000, by the dog’s year of birth

Among dogs born in 2005, 10.8 in every 10,000 licensed New York dogs were called Maximus. For dogs born in 2023 it was 6.6. The name peaked with the 2008 litters.

Where Maximus is a West Farms name

Maximus is 4.98x more common in West Farms than across the city as a whole.

  • West FarmsThe Bronx 52.5
  • Castle HillThe Bronx 30.5
  • CharlestonStaten Island 29.9
  • Long Island CityQueens 26.5
  • KingsbridgeThe Bronx 25.1
  • Lenox HillManhattan 22

dogs called Maximus 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 Maximus?

Yorkshire Terrier 27Shih Tzu 17American Pit Bull 17Labrador Retriever 15German Shepherd Dog 15American Pit Bull Terrier 14
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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