Frenchies are followed by Labrador retrievers, golden retrievers, German shepherds, poodles and some other longtime faves.

For the third year in a row, the Frenchie tops the AKC’s annual rundown of the nation’s most prevalent purebred dogs.

The five rarest AKC-recognized breeds are the sloughi, the Norwegian lundehund, the grand basset griffon Vendéen, the Bergamasco sheepdog and, at 201st, the English foxhound. To date, the AKC ...