Maximus
Maximus was given to 1,249 boys in 2025, #276 among boys’ names; 34,679 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 34,300 Americans named Maximus and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maximus by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maximus mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Maximus is “a male given name.”
Borrowed from Latin Maximus.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maximus?
#276 among boys’ names, 2025
Maximus fell from #197 in 2015 to #276 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 1.1 to 0.73 per 1,000.
2,137 babies in 2014, the peak
Maximus peaked in 2014, when 2,137 boys were given it, #192 among boys’ names. The 1,249 births of 2025 are 58% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,249 | #276 | 0.73 |
| 2024 | 1,045 | #331 | 0.61 |
| 2023 | 1,041 | #319 | 0.61 |
| 2022 | 1,274 | #270 | 0.73 |
| 2021 | 1,317 | #262 | 0.75 |
| 2020 | 1,407 | #251 | 0.82 |
| 2019 | 1,647 | #228 | 0.92 |
| 2018 | 1,820 | #212 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 1,964 | #201 | 1.1 |
| 2016 | 2,129 | #187 | 1.1 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,066 | #197 | 1.1 |
| 2014 | 2,137 | #192 | 1.1 |
| 2013 | 1,932 | #200 | 1.0 |
| 2012 | 1,844 | #206 | 1.0 |
| 2011 | 1,649 | #212 | 0.87 |
| 2010 | 1,489 | #234 | 0.78 |
| 2009 | 1,396 | #249 | 0.70 |
| 2008 | 1,355 | #258 | 0.66 |
| 2007 | 996 | #323 | 0.48 |
| 2006 | 795 | #375 | 0.39 |
| 2005 | 766 | #378 | 0.38 |
| 2004 | 614 | #425 | 0.31 |
| 2003 | 704 | #371 | 0.36 |
| 2002 | 912 | #313 | 0.47 |
| 2001 | 892 | #311 | 0.46 |
| 2000 | 188 | #849 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,906 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 18 | #3,951 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,249 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Maximus a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maximus has been given almost only to boys: 17 girls in 29 years of records.
Girls and boys named Maximus: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maximus, and how old are they?
34,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 34,679 Americans ever recorded as Maximus. The median Maximus alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 23,038 people named Maximus (48 women and girls, 22,990 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 27,469 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 13,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 20,900 |
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 Maximus born?
The states with the most babies named Maximus are California, Texas and Florida, with 35% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 210 | #187 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 123 | #307 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 93 | #229 | 1.1× |
| New York | 59 | #312 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 44 | #271 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 43 | #239 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 41 | #273 | 1.0× |
| Arizona | 40 | #211 | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 38 | #316 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 35 | #336 | 0.7× |
Where Maximus is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maximus is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1997 it was given 1.6 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 Maximus 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 35,983 babies since 1880, Maximus is the most given (96% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,249 of their 1,273 babies (98%), 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 Maximus
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 Maximus and names like it
- Compare Maximus and MaximosBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMaximus peaked in 2014.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maximus since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Maximus.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Maximus alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.