Maksym
Maksym was given to 31 boys in 2025, #3,626 among boys’ names; 540 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maksym by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maksym mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Maksym is “a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Maximus”
Learned borrowing from Latin Maximus.
/ˈmak.sɘm/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maksym?
#3,626 among boys’ names, 2025
Maksym rose from #3,647 in 2015 to #3,626 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 15.7 to 18.1 per million.
39 babies in 2014, the peak
Maksym peaked in 2014, when 39 boys were given it, #2,963 among boys’ names. The 31 births of 2025 are 79% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #3,626 | 18.1 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,569 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 35 | #3,393 | 20.5 |
| 2022 | 25 | #4,247 | 14.3 |
| 2021 | 16 | #5,687 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 19 | #4,965 | 11.0 |
| 2019 | 18 | #5,271 | 10.0 |
| 2018 | 23 | #4,434 | 12.7 |
| 2017 | 23 | #4,409 | 12.4 |
| 2016 | 31 | #3,574 | 16.3 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #3,647 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 39 | #2,963 | 20.3 |
| 2013 | 14 | #6,114 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 23 | #4,333 | 12.1 |
| 2011 | 33 | #3,341 | 17.4 |
| 2010 | 34 | #3,284 | 17.7 |
| 2009 | 25 | #4,121 | 12.6 |
| 2008 | 33 | #3,394 | 16.2 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,918 | 9.2 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,738 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,187 | 8.0 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,337 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,381 | 3.0 |
| 2001 | 8 | #8,024 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Maksym a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maksym has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maksym: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maksym, and how old are they?
An estimated 535 Americans named Maksym and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,608 people named Maksym (7 women and girls, 1,601 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 398 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.0 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 3,218 babies since 1880, Maksym is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 31 of their 86 babies (36%), again the second 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 Maksym
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 Maksym and names like it
- Compare Maksym and MaksimBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMaksym peaked in 2014.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maksym since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Maksym: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Maksym.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Maksym alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.