Dog names from license records · Boxer

Boxer names, counted from 4,392 licensed dogs

These are the names owners actually gave their Boxers, taken from city dog license records and counted one dog at a time. No suggestions, no made-up lists.

Source: dog license records from New York City, Seattle, Allegheny County, PA and Cambridge, MA, updated to Oct 2026.
Rocky is the most common Boxer name: 53 dogs, about 1 in 81
4,392Boxers in the four license registers
4,318of them with a usable name
Bellamost common female name
Rockymost common male name

The 30 most common Boxer names

Ranked by the number of licensed Boxers with each name. The figure beside each name is the dog count.

  1. 1Rocky53
  2. 2Bella40
  3. 3Stella36
  4. 4Luna35
  5. 5Bruno34
  6. 6Duke31
  7. 7Lucy31
  8. 8Daisy29
  9. 9Max29
  10. 10Tyson28
  11. 11Roxy25
  12. 12Penny22
  13. 13Bailey21
  14. 14Layla21
  15. 15Lola21
  16. 16Harley20
  17. 17Rocco20
  18. 18Rosie20
  19. 19Willow19
  20. 20Cooper18
  21. 21Lily18
  22. 22Nala18
  23. 23Riley18
  24. 24Charlie17
  25. 25Molly17
  26. 26Apollo16
  27. 27Buddy16
  28. 28Sophie16
  29. 29Maggie15
  30. 30Ruby15

Female and male Boxer names

From registers that record sex (New York, Allegheny County and Cambridge). Seattle doesn't.

Female Boxers, top 10

  1. 1Bella37
  2. 2Stella34
  3. 3Luna33
  4. 4Lucy30
  5. 5Daisy26
  6. 6Roxy24
  7. 7Penny22
  8. 8Layla21
  9. 9Lola20
  10. 10Willow19

Male Boxers, top 10

  1. 1Rocky50
  2. 2Bruno34
  3. 3Duke29
  4. 4Max29
  5. 5Tyson28
  6. 6Rocco20
  7. 7Cooper18
  8. 8Apollo16
  9. 9Buddy15
  10. 10Winston15

Names Boxer owners choose far more than other owners

Each name's share among Boxers, against its share among all 418,812 named dogs. “6.7×” means Tyson is 6.7 times as common for a Boxer as for the average dog.

  • Tyson6.7× usual · 28 dogs
  • Layla3.6× usual · 21 dogs
  • Duke3.4× usual · 31 dogs
  • Bruno3.1× usual · 34 dogs
  • Rocco3× usual · 20 dogs
  • Roxy2.7× usual · 25 dogs
  • Stella2.5× usual · 36 dogs
  • Apollo2.5× usual · 16 dogs
  • Willow2.4× usual · 19 dogs
  • Harley2.2× usual · 20 dogs
  • Rocky2.1× usual · 53 dogs
  • Sasha2× usual · 15 dogs

How far these Boxer names can be trusted

Four places, not the whole country

Only four US registers publish each dog's name and breed together. 65% of these Boxers are licensed in New York City, so the list leans towards New York tastes. Many owners never license their dog, so this is a large sample of licensed dogs, not a census.

Names for other breeds

Sources for these figures