Boys' name · since 2001
Maxum
Maxum has 89 recorded births since 2001 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2009 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 89
- total births
- 2001–2014
- years on record
- 2000s
- peak decade
- 54%
- born in that decade
Maxum is not among the current top-ranked boys names; 89 have been recorded since 2001.
Maxum has 89 recorded births among boys since 2001, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2001 to 2014.
- 89 total births
- 2001–2014 years on record
- 2000s peak decade
- 54% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Maxum's 89 recorded births place it above 60% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Maxum's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Maxum's full recorded timeline at 2009, 61% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 39% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2005, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2009 peak of 13 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Maxum popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2001–2014
- Peak year (2009)
- 13
- Annual births at peak, across 14 years of records
Maxum by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
2000s was Maxum's strongest decade.
48 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 54% of all-time use.
Maxum births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s
2000s
48 births
- 2010s
2010s
41 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 48 births (54% of all-time use).
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- Maxum's usage has stayed within range of its 2000s decade-level peak (48 total births) through the 2010s (41) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2001–2014 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Maxum: Baby Name Since 2001 - 89 Births, Peak 2009." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/maxum. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Maxum draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.