Maxim
Maxim is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 125 births. Its best rank was 686th, in 2012.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1250.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2012346 births
- Best rank
- #686in 2012
- Since 1923
- 6,878people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,878 boys have been named Maxim in the United States since 1923, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2012, with 346 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2010, and the 2010s alone account for 42%. It has spent 20 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Maxim | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 13 | |
| 1930s | 10 | |
| 1940s | 39 | |
| 1950s | 25 | |
| 1960s | 32 | |
| 1970s | 36 | |
| 1980s | 182 | |
| 1990s | 598 | |
| 2000s | 2,230 | |
| 2010s | 2,898 | |
| 2020s | 815 |
In 2012, its biggest year
Maxim was the 686th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2012 were Jacob, Mason, Ethan, Noah and William. See all of 2012.
Names that rose and fell with Maxim
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Siddharthpeak 2010
- Riderpeak 2014
- Alekzanderpeak 2010
- Brystonpeak 2012
- Filippeak 2012
- Carsenpeak 2010
- Jamierpeak 2010
- Dominikpeak 2012
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.