Maxx
Maxx was given to 92 boys in 2025, #1,761 among boys’ names; 4,189 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,120 Americans named Maxx and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 10 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maxx by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maxx?
#1,761 among boys’ names, 2025
Maxx fell from #1,146 in 2015 to #1,761 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 86.1 to 53.9 per million.
216 babies in 2010, the peak
Maxx peaked in 2010, when 216 babies were given it (210 boys, #954 among boys’ names). The 98 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 45% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 92 | #1,761 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 98 | #1,704 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 55 | #2,466 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 84 | #1,883 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 74 | #2,020 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 93 | #1,693 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 97 | #1,668 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 115 | #1,504 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 136 | #1,329 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 165 | #1,162 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 165 | #1,146 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 187 | #1,061 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 175 | #1,073 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 190 | #1,029 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 204 | #970 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 210 | #954 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 210 | #960 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 188 | #1,021 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 95 | #1,632 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 90 | #1,614 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 84 | #1,626 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 75 | #1,708 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 73 | #1,693 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 73 | #1,642 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 74 | #1,608 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 84 | #1,470 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 82 | #1,424 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 73 | #1,506 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 64 | #1,589 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 57 | #1,683 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 52 | #1,719 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 59 | #1,570 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 77 | #1,297 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 92 | #1,149 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 65 | #1,414 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 61 | #1,440 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 63 | #1,383 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 65 | #1,275 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 31 | #2,001 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 16 | #3,075 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,327 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,066 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,283 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,796 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Maxx a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,189 Americans recorded as Maxx, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 girls and 92 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Maxx: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maxx, and how old are they?
4,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,189 Americans ever recorded as Maxx. The median Maxx alive today is 16 years old; half are between 10 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 3,549 people named Maxx (145 women and girls, 3,404 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,636 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 12 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 636 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,860 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,610 |
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 Maxx born?
The states with the most babies named Maxx are California, Florida and New York, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 23 | #983 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,580 | 0.8× |
| New York | 6 | #1,682 | 0.8× |
Where Maxx is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maxx is most over-represented in California: since 1980 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 Maxx 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 172,766 babies since 1880, Maxx is the second most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 98 of their 2,164 babies (4.5%), again the second 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 Maxx
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 Maxx and names like it
- Compare Maxx and MaxBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMaxx peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maxx since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Maxx.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Maxx alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.