Maksim
Maksim was given to 55 boys in 2025, #2,466 among boys’ names; 2,678 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,650 Americans named Maksim and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maksim by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maksim mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Maksim is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maksim?
#2,466 among boys’ names, 2025
Maksim fell from #1,180 in 2015 to #2,466 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 82.4 to 32.2 per million.
204 babies in 2011, the peak
Maksim peaked in 2011, when 204 boys were given it, #969 among boys’ names. The 55 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 55 | #2,466 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 82 | #1,930 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 76 | #2,011 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 83 | #1,900 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 85 | #1,831 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 80 | #1,859 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 101 | #1,631 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 125 | #1,404 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 139 | #1,303 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 144 | #1,271 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 158 | #1,180 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 131 | #1,333 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 153 | #1,179 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 161 | #1,141 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 204 | #969 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 178 | #1,084 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 160 | #1,144 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 134 | #1,299 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 107 | #1,492 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 61 | #2,138 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 46 | #2,476 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 44 | #2,517 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 38 | #2,658 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 28 | #3,230 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 20 | #4,055 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 24 | #3,484 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,526 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,318 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,846 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,581 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,487 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,752 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,279 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Maksim a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maksim has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maksim: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maksim, and how old are they?
2,650 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,678 Americans ever recorded as Maksim. The median Maksim alive today is 13 years old; half are between 8 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 4,168 people named Maksim (6 women and girls, 4,162 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,218 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 26 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,220 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,400 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Maksim born?
The states with the most babies named Maksim are California, Illinois and Florida, with 80% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8 | #1,933 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,228 | 1.8× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,766 | 1.0× |
| New York | 5 | #1,941 | 1.5× |
Where Maksim is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maksim is most over-represented in Washington: since 1993 it was given 2.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Maksim with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 3,218 babies since 1880, Maksim is the most given (83% of them). In 2025 it was given to 55 of their 86 babies (64%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Maksim
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Maksim and names like it
- Compare Maksim and MaksymBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMaksim peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maksim since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Maksim.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Maksim alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.