Maximus
Maximus is ranked 330th among boys in 2024 (1,043 births). Its best rank was 187th, in 2016.
- Rank in 2024
- #330down 11 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,0430.06% of boys
- Peak year
- 20142,137 births
- Best rank
- #187in 2016
- Since 1997
- 33,403people given the name
The story in the numbers
33,403 boys have been named Maximus in the United States since 1997, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2014, with 2,137 births — 0.11% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 192 → 330).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2014, and the 2010s alone account for 56%. It has spent 25 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2014, its biggest year
Maximus was the 192nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2014 were Noah, Liam, Mason, Jacob and William. See all of 2014.
Names that rose and fell with Maximus
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Karsenpeak 2018
- Tytanpeak 2015
- Camdenpeak 2013
- Tytuspeak 2012
- Amerepeak 2014
- Zylerpeak 2013
- Braxtenpeak 2013
- Jakhipeak 2015
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.