Maxton
Maxton was given to 175 boys in 2025, #1,180 among boys’ names; 4,685 Americans have been recorded with it since 1927 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,630 Americans named Maxton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 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 Maxton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maxton?
#1,180 among boys’ names, 2025
Maxton fell from #805 in 2015 to #1,180 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.15 to 0.10 per 1,000.
377 babies in 2017, the peak
Maxton peaked in 2017, when 377 boys were given it, #672 among boys’ names. The 175 births of 2025 are 46% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 175 | #1,180 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 155 | #1,273 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 158 | #1,240 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 235 | #964 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 220 | #999 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 216 | #989 | 0.13 |
| 2019 | 244 | #903 | 0.14 |
| 2018 | 267 | #834 | 0.15 |
| 2017 | 377 | #672 | 0.20 |
| 2016 | 330 | #739 | 0.17 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 286 | #805 | 0.15 |
| 2014 | 306 | #767 | 0.16 |
| 2013 | 265 | #819 | 0.14 |
| 2012 | 235 | #891 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 210 | #948 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 194 | #1,010 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 167 | #1,110 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 136 | #1,281 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 92 | #1,665 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 45 | #2,644 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 46 | #2,477 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 41 | #2,621 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 25 | #3,589 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 34 | #2,795 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 33 | #2,838 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 30 | #2,961 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 27 | #3,068 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 21 | #3,561 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 14 | #4,596 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 15 | #4,313 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,231 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,703 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,641 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,755 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,899 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,206 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,682 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,651 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,209 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,162 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,588 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Maxton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maxton has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maxton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maxton, and how old are they?
4,630 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,685 Americans ever recorded as Maxton. The median Maxton alive today is 10 years old; half are between 7 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 3,275 people named Maxton (17 women and girls, 3,258 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,544 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 87 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,330 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,210 |
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 Maxton born?
The states with the most babies named Maxton are California, Ohio and Texas, with 44% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 18 | #1,141 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 15 | #641 | 2.0× |
| Texas | 13 | #1,454 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 12 | #752 | 2.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #825 | 0.8× |
| Missouri | 8 | #698 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,579 | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,067 | 1.1× |
| New York | 6 | #1,681 | 0.3× |
| Kentucky | 5 | #776 | 1.6× |
Where Maxton is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maxton is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1927 it was given 2.1 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 Maxton 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 5,097 babies since 1880, Maxton is the most given (92% of them). In 2025 it was given to 175 of their 193 babies (91%), 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 Maxton
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 Maxton and names like it
- Compare Maxton and MaxtynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMaxton peaked in 2017.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maxton since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Maxton.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Maxton alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.