Maxson
Maxson was given to 29 boys in 2025, #3,818 among boys’ names; 1,056 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,040 Americans named Maxson and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maxson by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maxson?
#3,818 among boys’ names, 2025
Maxson fell from #2,082 in 2015 to #3,818 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 35.5 to 17.0 per million.
78 babies in 2016, the peak
Maxson peaked in 2016, when 78 boys were given it, #1,897 among boys’ names. The 29 births of 2025 are 37% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #3,818 | 17.0 |
| 2024 | 24 | #4,392 | 13.9 |
| 2023 | 55 | #2,465 | 32.2 |
| 2022 | 49 | #2,699 | 28.1 |
| 2021 | 46 | #2,760 | 26.3 |
| 2020 | 49 | #2,603 | 28.4 |
| 2019 | 66 | #2,162 | 36.8 |
| 2018 | 72 | #2,021 | 39.6 |
| 2017 | 56 | #2,332 | 30.3 |
| 2016 | 78 | #1,897 | 41.1 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 68 | #2,082 | 35.5 |
| 2014 | 71 | #2,010 | 37.0 |
| 2013 | 66 | #2,059 | 34.9 |
| 2012 | 44 | #2,749 | 23.2 |
| 2011 | 52 | #2,427 | 27.4 |
| 2010 | 35 | #3,220 | 18.2 |
| 2009 | 28 | #3,791 | 14.1 |
| 2008 | 35 | #3,263 | 17.2 |
| 2007 | 21 | #4,592 | 10.1 |
| 2006 | 21 | #4,450 | 10.2 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,781 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,692 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,557 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 6 | #10,211 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 9 | #7,200 | 4.6 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,902 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 7 | #8,141 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,407 | 5.8 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,314 | 3.1 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,757 | 2.9 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,285 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Maxson a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maxson has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maxson: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maxson, and how old are they?
1,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,056 Americans ever recorded as Maxson. The median Maxson alive today is 11 years old; half are between 7 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 780 people named Maxson (9 women and girls, 771 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 804 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 22 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 295 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 723 |
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 Maxson born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #2,824 | 0.4× |
Where Maxson is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maxson is most over-represented in California: since 1916 it was given 1.1 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 Maxson with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Maxson
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 Maxson and names like it
- Compare Maxson and MaxtonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMaxson peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maxson since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Maxson.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Maxson alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.