Max
How many real pets are named Max, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Max as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 4,527 pets are named Max: 4,277 dogs, 244 cats, 2 rabbits, 2 guinea pigs, 1 other, 1 goat. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #3 among dog names and #9 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Max
Dogs
- Shih Tzu: 286
- Yorkshire Terrier: 283
- Labrador Retriever: 241
- German Shepherd: 188
- Pit Bull: 174
Cats
- Domestic Shorthair: 112
- Domestic Medium Hair: 13
- Domestic Longhair: 5
- American Shorthair: 4
- Maine Coon: 3
Rabbits
- Rabbit Sh: 2
Others
- Cockatiel: 1
Goats
- Goat: 1
Guinea Pigs
- Guinea Pig: 2
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Max
- New York City: 2,977licensed
- Austin shelter: 612shelter
- Toronto: 469licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 126shelter
- Seattle: 125licensed
- Burnside (SA): 70licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 55licensed
- Richmond, VA: 36licensed
- Zurich: 29licensed
- Prospect (SA): 16licensed
- Adelaide: 12licensed
Max as a human name
This is the meaning of Max as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Latin.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Max
Dog names about as popular as Max
Max FAQ
How many pets are named Max?
In the public pet records we track, 4,527 pets are named Max: 4,277 dogs, 244 cats, 2 rabbits, 2 guinea pigs, 1 other, 1 goat. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #3 among dog names and #9 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Max?
Among dogs named Max in these records, the most common breed is Shih Tzu.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); Dogs of Cambridge (ODC PDDL); Licensed Dog and Cat Names, City of Toronto (Open Government Licence – Toronto); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Dog Registrations, City of Adelaide (CC BY 3.0 AU); Burnside Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); City of Prospect Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); Pet Licenses, City of Richmond; Animal Shelter Intake and Outcome, County of Sonoma; Austin Animal Center Outcomes (public domain). License records count registered pets; shelter records count animals that passed through a shelter (some names are given by staff). Pets that appear in several years of one dataset are counted once. Names are counted as written, so spelling variants are separate.