Dachshund ranks at #732 with 162 entries, registered neutral. The name is almost certainly a paperwork artifact rather than an intentional pick. Dachshund is a dog breed, not a name, and its presence on the licensing-data chart reflects intake forms where the breed got entered in the name field by mistake.
The breed-as-name licensing pattern
Dachshund sits with Maltese, Beagle, and other breed-name licensing artifacts in a small but consistent pattern: dogs registered with their breed as their name on the paperwork. The phenomenon happens at shelters and rescues where intake forms get filled in quickly, at smaller licensing offices where the breed field and name field can collide, and in households where the dog genuinely never got a formal name beyond the breed designation.
The breed lean
By definition, the name lands almost exclusively on actual Dachshunds: standards, miniatures, smooth-haired, longhaired, and wirehaired. A small subset appears on Dachshund-mix breeds where the rescue used the breed designation as a placeholder. The pattern is real and consistent enough to surface at rank #732 on the chart, with 162 dogs registered this way.
The counter-reading
Dachshund as a daily-call name does not really work. Two syllables (DAKS-und), with consonant clusters that compete with the dog's actual nickname in casual contexts. Owners who want the breed in the name often shift to Dax or Oscar as a daily-use diminutive while leaving Dachshund on the formal license. Browse other Dachshund-friendly picks for adjacent options that read as actual names.