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Maks

#9,396 in 2025Boys' name

Short form of Maksim

Maks has been given to 339 babies in the U.S. since 2007. In 2025 it ranked #9,396 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 43 recorded.

Babies named Maks, 2025

1 in 414,000

Maks over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maks: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Maksim

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maks means

Maks is a short form of Maksim.

Origin, language, and formation

Maks is used in English, Faroese and Polish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maksim, Max and Maksymilian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Maks is pronounced /ˈmaks/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 339 boys were recorded with the name Maks between 2007 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 43 in 2011; its best national rank was #2,776 in 2011.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,867 in 2020 to #9,396 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,751 in 2015 to #9,396 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Maks?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,396
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maks sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maks. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Makss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maks was born before 2014 — so the typical Maks is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
74.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
339
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 74.0% of all recorded uses (251).

Is Maks rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,291
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,529
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,645
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.28×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
18.6%
Peak was 2011 (43)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,776
2011

Spellings of Maks

Maks is not the most common spelling — Mark is, with 61.9% against Maks's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Maks is used

Across 1910–2025, Maks was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,459,129 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Maks has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maks around the world

Where Maks ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2008–2008
    #638
    in 2008
  • Ireland
    2017–2017
    #710
    in 2017
  • France
    2018–2018
    #5,850
    in 2018
  • Canada
    2008–2021
    #2,357
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1991–1991
    #481
    in 1991

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Maks by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,396
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,529
Best rank ever
#2,776
2011
Peak year
2011
43 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
339
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Maks

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Maks

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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