Maxim
Last seen for girls in 2010 at #14,959 · #1,520 for boys in 2025, 114 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2012 · 346 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,992since 1923
Maxim over time
Rank among boys' names. Maxim has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,520 | 114 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,448 | 125 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,337 | 142 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,171 | 174 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,076 | 197 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,111 | 177 | |
| 2019 | — | #984 | 216 | |
| 2018 | — | #902 | 240 | |
| 2017 | — | #871 | 249 | |
| 2016 | — | #847 | 265 | |
| 2015 | — | #780 | 301 | |
| 2014 | — | #720 | 335 | |
| 2013 | — | #731 | 319 | |
| 2012 | — | #683 | 346 | |
| 2011 | — | #726 | 313 | |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | #729 | 314 |
| 2009 | — | #731 | 319 | |
| 2008 | — | #703 | 334 | |
| 2007 | — | #789 | 273 | |
| 2006 | — | #851 | 236 | |
| 2005 | — | #980 | 177 | |
| 2004 | — | #895 | 194 | |
| 2003 | — | #849 | 204 | |
| 2002 | — | #954 | 168 | |
| 2001 | — | #926 | 167 | |
| 2000 | — | #962 | 158 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,181 | 109 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,280 | 94 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,350 | 82 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,552 | 64 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,864 | 46 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,753 | 50 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,792 | 47 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,955 | 41 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,344 | 30 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,086 | 35 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,292 | 29 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,035 | 31 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,829 | 35 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,226 | 25 | |
| 1985 | — | #4,333 | 9 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,824 | 16 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,499 | 8 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,692 | 11 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,412 | 12 | |
| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,068 | 9 | |
| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
| 1977 | — | — | ||
| 1976 | — | #4,935 | 6 | |
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| 1973 | — | #4,505 | 6 | |
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| 1971 | — | #3,370 | 9 | |
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| 1966 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1965 | — | — | ||
| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,646 | 6 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,041 | 8 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,652 | 6 | |
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| 1957 | — | #3,552 | 6 | |
| 1956 | — | #3,942 | 5 | |
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| 1953 | — | #3,143 | 7 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,095 | 7 | |
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| 1946 | — | #2,919 | 7 | |
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| 1944 | — | #3,109 | 6 | |
| 1943 | — | #2,964 | 7 | |
| 1942 | — | #2,712 | 8 | |
| 1941 | — | #3,505 | 5 | |
| 1940 | — | #3,130 | 6 | |
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| 1936 | — | #3,549 | 5 | |
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| 1934 | — | #3,679 | 5 | |
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| 1926 | — | #4,201 | 5 | |
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| 1923 | — | #3,175 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Maxim! It came in at #3,175, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1924–1939, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Maxim is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Florida#561 · 1 in 3,313
- Illinois#617 · 1 in 3,594
- Washington#625 · 1 in 3,340
- Pennsylvania#728 · 1 in 5,041
- New Jersey#747 · 1 in 5,069
Best ever in a state: #178 in Alaska, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | #561 | 28 | 1 in 3,313 |
| Illinois | #617 | 15 | 1 in 3,594 |
| Washington | #625 | 10 | 1 in 3,340 |
| Pennsylvania | #728 | 11 | 1 in 5,041 |
| New Jersey | #747 | 8 | 1 in 5,069 |
| Michigan | #895 | 7 | 1 in 6,138 |
| Virginia | #923 | 6 | 1 in 6,518 |
| California | #928 | 25 | 1 in 7,575 |
| New York | #1,048 | 11 | 1 in 8,103 |
| Ohio | #1,105 | 6 | 1 in 9,036 |
| Texas | #1,368 | 13 | 1 in 13,163 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Maxim
- 72 spots since 2024 (#1,448 → #1,520)
- 409 spots since 2020 (#1,111 → #1,520)
- 740 spots since 2015 (#780 → #1,520)
- Biggest jump: 219 spots in 2000 (#1,181 → #962)
- Biggest drop: 127 spots in 2020 (#984 → #1,111)
- Debuted 1923
- Peaked 2012 at #683 (346 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 2000–2019
- Highest: 1 in 5,483 boys born in 2012 were named Maxim (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,983 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 41.4% of all boys named Maxim (2,898) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 13 | #3,175 (1923) | #3,688 |
| 1930s | 10 | #3,549 (1936) | #3,614 |
| 1940s | 39 | #2,712 (1942) | #3,057 |
| 1950s | 25 | #3,095 (1952) | #3,433 |
| 1960s | 32 | #3,041 (1962) | #3,495 |
| 1970s | 36 | #3,370 (1971) | #4,387 |
| 1980s | 182 | #1,829 (1987) | #3,267 |
| 1990s | 598 | #1,181 (1999) | #1,716 |
| 2000s | 2,230 | #703 (2008) | #864 |
| 2010s | 2,898 | #683 (2012) | #797 |
| 2020s | 929 | #1,076 (2021) | #1,277 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Maxim in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 8,881 of them was named Maxim, which outranked 92.4% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,071Shai199
- #1,071Slade199
- #1,075Dayton198
- #1,076Maxim197
- #1,076Ash197
- #1,076Kayce197
- #1,076Westyn197
- #1,081Achilles196
- #1,081Bentlee196
- #1,081Darwin196
Tied with 4 names at #1,076; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.