Maxton
#1,176 for boys in 2025, 175 births
- Peak · boys
- 2017 · 377 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,685since 1927
Maxton over time
Rank among boys' names. Maxton 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 | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,176 | 175 |
| 2024 | #1,271 | 155 |
| 2023 | #1,238 | 158 |
| 2022 | #963 | 235 |
| 2021 | #996 | 220 |
| 2020 | #986 | 216 |
| 2019 | #897 | 244 |
| 2018 | #832 | 267 |
| 2017 | #670 | 377 |
| 2016 | #739 | 330 |
| 2015 | #805 | 286 |
| 2014 | #766 | 306 |
| 2013 | #818 | 265 |
| 2012 | #891 | 235 |
| 2011 | #943 | 210 |
| 2010 | #1,009 | 194 |
| 2009 | #1,103 | 167 |
| 2008 | #1,276 | 136 |
| 2007 | #1,658 | 92 |
| 2006 | #2,621 | 45 |
| 2005 | #2,467 | 46 |
| 2004 | #2,599 | 41 |
| 2003 | #3,528 | 25 |
| 2002 | #2,755 | 34 |
| 2001 | #2,797 | 33 |
| 2000 | #2,922 | 30 |
| 1999 | #3,031 | 27 |
| 1998 | #3,486 | 21 |
| 1997 | #4,451 | 14 |
| 1996 | #4,185 | 15 |
| 1995 | #5,928 | 9 |
| 1994 | #4,537 | 13 |
| 1993 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1992 | #4,564 | 12 |
| 1991 | #7,271 | 6 |
| 1990 | #5,823 | 8 |
| 1989 | #6,229 | 7 |
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| 1987 | #6,089 | 6 |
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| 1985 | #6,523 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Maxton! It came in at #4,210, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1927–1986, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Maxton is popular in 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- North Carolina#445 · 1 in 2,389
- Indiana#463 · 1 in 2,426
- Ohio#469 · 1 in 2,729
- Oregon#482 · 1 in 2,374
- Iowa#493 · 1 in 2,394
Best ever in a state: #293 in West Virginia, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | #445 | 21 | 1 in 2,389 |
| Indiana | #463 | 14 | 1 in 2,426 |
| Ohio | #469 | 21 | 1 in 2,729 |
| Oregon | #482 | 7 | 1 in 2,374 |
| Iowa | #493 | 6 | 1 in 2,394 |
| Kentucky | #516 | 7 | 1 in 2,990 |
| Wisconsin | #516 | 9 | 1 in 2,860 |
| Missouri | #536 | 10 | 1 in 3,035 |
| Virginia | #621 | 10 | 1 in 4,074 |
| Tennessee | #768 | 7 | 1 in 5,072 |
| Georgia | #858 | 9 | 1 in 5,799 |
| Michigan | #873 | 7 | 1 in 6,556 |
| California | #950 | 23 | 1 in 8,979 |
| Pennsylvania | #975 | 7 | 1 in 8,181 |
| Illinois | #1,067 | 7 | 1 in 8,524 |
| Florida | #1,104 | 10 | 1 in 9,584 |
| Texas | #1,144 | 16 | 1 in 10,930 |
| New York | #1,581 | 6 | 1 in 15,957 |
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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 Maxton
- 95 spots since 2024 (#1,271 → #1,176)
- 190 spots since 2020 (#986 → #1,176)
- 371 spots since 2015 (#805 → #1,176)
- Biggest jump: 73 spots in 2013 (#891 → #818)
- Biggest drop: 275 spots in 2023 (#963 → #1,238)
- Debuted 1927
- Peaked 2017 at #670 (377 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 2011–2022
- Highest: 1 in 4,910 boys born in 2017 were named Maxton (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,760 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 57.9% of all boys named Maxton (2,714) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | #4,210 (1927) | #4,210 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 5 | #3,798 (1953) | #3,798 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 18 | #6,089 (1987) | #6,280 |
| 1990s | 135 | #3,031 (1999) | #4,864 |
| 2000s | 649 | #1,103 (2009) | #2,373 |
| 2010s | 2,714 | #670 (2017) | #837 |
| 2020s | 1,159 | #963 (2022) | #1,105 |
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.
Maxton in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 6,802 of them was named Maxton, which outranked 94.1% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #827Elisha270
- #830Leighton269
- #830Marc269
- #832Maxton267
- #832Aldo267
- #832Ledger267
- #832Reginald267
- #837Darian266
- #837Jacoby266
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Tied with 4 names at #832; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.