Maxwell — #182 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Maxwell

The Social Security Administration has registered 106,804 babies named Maxwell between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Maxwell currently holds the #182 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 3,739 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Maxwell performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 32,446 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Maxwell shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 11,599 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Maxwell in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Maxwell in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 106,804 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.