Maxon
Maxon was given to 42 boys in 2025, #2,965 among boys’ names; 1,466 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,430 Americans named Maxon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 7 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maxon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maxon?
#2,965 among boys’ names, 2025
Maxon fell from #1,549 in 2015 to #2,965 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 54.8 to 24.6 per million.
108 babies in 2018, the peak
Maxon peaked in 2018, when 108 boys were given it, #1,562 among boys’ names. The 42 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | #2,965 | 24.6 |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,077 | 23.2 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,156 | 22.8 |
| 2022 | 74 | #2,053 | 42.4 |
| 2021 | 61 | #2,290 | 34.9 |
| 2020 | 83 | #1,809 | 48.1 |
| 2019 | 99 | #1,647 | 55.2 |
| 2018 | 108 | #1,562 | 59.5 |
| 2017 | 95 | #1,678 | 51.3 |
| 2016 | 97 | #1,650 | 51.1 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 105 | #1,549 | 54.8 |
| 2014 | 101 | #1,571 | 52.6 |
| 2013 | 76 | #1,873 | 40.2 |
| 2012 | 67 | #2,059 | 35.3 |
| 2011 | 49 | #2,537 | 25.8 |
| 2010 | 55 | #2,345 | 28.7 |
| 2009 | 33 | #3,379 | 16.6 |
| 2008 | 47 | #2,661 | 23.0 |
| 2007 | 32 | #3,417 | 15.4 |
| 2006 | 16 | #5,453 | 7.8 |
| 2005 | 19 | #4,576 | 9.5 |
| 2004 | 26 | #3,597 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 16 | #4,960 | 8.1 |
| 2002 | 18 | #4,426 | 9.3 |
| 2001 | 16 | #4,817 | 8.2 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,794 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,615 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,348 | 6.3 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,083 | 2.6 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,886 | 4.8 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,587 | 4.4 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,362 | 5.4 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,284 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Maxon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maxon 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 Maxon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maxon, and how old are they?
1,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,466 Americans ever recorded as Maxon. The median Maxon alive today is 10 years old; half are between 7 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 1,157 people named Maxon (14 women and girls, 1,143 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,121 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 416 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,010 |
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 Maxon born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #2,675 | 0.9× |
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 Maxon 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,182 babies since 1880, Maxon is the most given (67% of them). In 2025 it was given to 42 of their 68 babies (62%), 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 Maxon
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 Maxon and names like it
- Compare Maxon and MaxenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMaxon peaked in 2018.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maxon since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Maxon.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Maxon alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.