Maxim
Maxim was given to 114 boys in 2025, #1,524 among boys’ names; 6,998 Americans have been recorded with it since 1923 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,840 Americans named Maxim and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 10 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maxim by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maxim mean?
Wiktionary, Czech section
Maxim is “a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Maximus”
From the Latin saint’s name Maximus, cognate to French Maxime and Russian Макси́м (Maksím).
[ˈmaksɪm]
Meaning: Wiktionary, Czech section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maxim?
#1,524 among boys’ names, 2025
Maxim fell from #780 in 2015 to #1,524 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.16 to 0.07 per 1,000.
346 babies in 2012, the peak
Maxim peaked in 2012, when 346 boys were given it, #687 among boys’ names. The 114 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 114 | #1,524 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 125 | #1,453 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 142 | #1,337 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 174 | #1,176 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 197 | #1,078 | 0.11 |
| 2020 | 177 | #1,114 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 216 | #986 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 240 | #903 | 0.13 |
| 2017 | 249 | #871 | 0.13 |
| 2016 | 265 | #847 | 0.14 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 301 | #780 | 0.16 |
| 2014 | 335 | #721 | 0.17 |
| 2013 | 319 | #732 | 0.17 |
| 2012 | 346 | #687 | 0.18 |
| 2011 | 313 | #728 | 0.16 |
| 2010 | 314 | #730 | 0.16 |
| 2009 | 319 | #732 | 0.16 |
| 2008 | 334 | #704 | 0.16 |
| 2007 | 273 | #790 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 236 | #853 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 177 | #982 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 194 | #895 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 204 | #850 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 168 | #955 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 167 | #931 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 158 | #962 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 109 | #1,183 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 94 | #1,279 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 82 | #1,357 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 64 | #1,563 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 46 | #1,872 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 50 | #1,759 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 47 | #1,810 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 41 | #1,965 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 30 | #2,372 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 35 | #2,109 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 29 | #2,326 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 31 | #2,072 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 35 | #1,852 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 25 | #2,266 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,553 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 16 | #2,901 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,766 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,853 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 12 | #3,536 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,980 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,274 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,530 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,370 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,882 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,559 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,785 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,888 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,890 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,212 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,914 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,826 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,287 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,312 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,279 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 7 | #3,088 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,332 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,136 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,862 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,830 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,345 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,884 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,019 | under 0.01 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,593 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,355 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Maxim a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maxim has been given almost only to boys: 6 girls in 70 years of records.
Girls and boys named Maxim: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maxim, and how old are they?
6,840 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 6,998 Americans ever recorded as Maxim. The median Maxim alive today is 15 years old; half are between 10 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 7,803 people named Maxim (82 women and girls, 7,721 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,996 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30% above 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 12 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 40 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 43 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 467 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,440 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,830 |
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 Maxim born?
The states with the most babies named Maxim are California, New York and Florida, with 59% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 18 | #1,140 | 1.1× |
| New York | 11 | #1,093 | 2.1× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,239 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 9 | #1,854 | 0.4× |
| Washington | 7 | #862 | 2.8× |
| Colorado | 6 | #819 | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,131 | 1.2× |
Where Maxim is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maxim is most over-represented in Washington: since 1923 it was given 2.8 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 Maxim 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 7,178 babies since 1880, Maxim is the most given (97% of them). In 2025 it was given to 114 of their 114 babies (100%), 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 Maxim
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 Maxim and names like it
- Compare Maxim and MaximumBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMaxim peaked in 2012.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maxim since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Maxim: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Maxim.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Maxim alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.