Maxton
Maxton is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 154 births. Its best rank was 672nd, in 2017.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1540.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2017377 births
- Best rank
- #672in 2017
- Since 1927
- 4,509people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,509 boys have been named Maxton in the United States since 1927, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2017, with 377 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 2015, and the 2010s alone account for 60%. It has spent 12 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2017, its biggest year
Maxton was the 672nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2017 were Liam, Noah, William, James and Logan. See all of 2017.
Names that rose and fell with Maxton
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Maxsonpeak 2016
- Jaxonpeak 2016
- Deklanpeak 2018
- Jaxsonpeak 2015
- Paxtonpeak 2016
- Cristianopeak 2015
- Breckenpeak 2017
- Rugerpeak 2016
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.