In 2009 The Vancouver Sun collected information on registered dogs and then made a database readers can search:

Vancouver Sun Dog Name Database.

…101,556 registered dogs from 15 Metro Vancouver cities whose name, breed and neighbourhood were collected by The Vancouver Sun through Freedom of Information requests to local city halls.

The newspaper used the electronic data to create a searchable database (www.vancouversun.com/dogs) of local canines.

Along the way they discovered some interesting facts about breeds:

The data shows Labrador retrievers are the most common breed in Metro. The total number of Labs in the database (13,516) include 8,080 purebred while the rest are hybrids.

Labs are followed in popularity by terriers, shepherds, shih tzus and collies.

And information about names:

Max is widely reported to be the most popular dog name on the planet and The Vancouver Sun’s 100,000-entry dog-name database shows that local dog owners are true to the trend. There are 1,347 dogs named Max registered in the 15 municipalities that contributed data to the project, good for first overall.

[Via : Names increasingly reflect dogs' integration into the family.]

What breed of dog do you have, and how did you choose its name?