Maxwell
How many real pets are named Maxwell, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Maxwell as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 218 pets are named Maxwell: 198 dogs, 18 cats, 2 others. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #407 among dog names and #587 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Maxwell
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 15
- Shih Tzu: 14
- Yorkshire Terrier: 12
- Pit Bull: 10
- Maltese: 10
Cats
Others
- Rex: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Maxwell
- New York City: 147licensed
- Austin shelter: 36shelter
- Seattle: 15licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 7shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 5licensed
- Richmond, VA: 5licensed
- Burnside (SA): 2licensed
- Zurich: 1licensed
Maxwell as a human name
This is the meaning of Maxwell as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name transferred from the surname. Root meaning: “well”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Maxwell
Dog names about as popular as Maxwell
Maxwell FAQ
How many pets are named Maxwell?
In the public pet records we track, 218 pets are named Maxwell: 198 dogs, 18 cats, 2 others. Where sex was recorded, 1% are female and 99% male. It ranks #407 among dog names and #587 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Maxwell?
Among dogs named Maxwell in these records, the most common breed is Labrador Retriever.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); Dogs of Cambridge (ODC PDDL); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Burnside 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.