Max — #175 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Max

The Social Security Administration has registered 165,413 babies named Max between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Max currently holds the #175 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 3,958 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Max performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 34,133 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Max shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 17,483 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Max in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Max in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 165,413 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.