Maxxwell
Maxxwell was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 254 Americans have been recorded with it between 1990 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maxxwell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maxxwell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,757, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 2008, the peak
Maxxwell peaked in 2008, when 20 boys were given it, #4,834 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #11,757 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 5 | #13,648 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,654 | 3.4 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,438 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 5 | #13,448 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,694 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,578 | 4.7 |
| 2015 | 13 | #6,567 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 15 | #5,897 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,882 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | #13,522 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 14 | #6,138 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,935 | 7.8 |
| 2009 | 13 | #6,682 | 6.6 |
| 2008 | 20 | #4,834 | 9.8 |
| 2007 | 5 | #13,698 | 2.4 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,255 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 9 | #8,071 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,860 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 7 | #9,286 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 7 | #9,055 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 8 | #8,047 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,993 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 7 | #8,142 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,825 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,992 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,330 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,481 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 5 | #9,113 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,758 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Maxxwell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maxxwell has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maxxwell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maxxwell, and how old are they?
An estimated 250 Americans named Maxxwell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 204 people named Maxxwell (3 women and girls, 201 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 234 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
Names spelled alike
Maxxwell is a less common spelling of Maxwell: SSA has recorded 254 Maxxwell and 109,467 Maxwell since 1880.
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Maxxwell
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.