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Maksim

#2,466 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Maksim has been given to 2,678 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #2,466 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 204 recorded.

Babies named Maksim, 2025

1 in 60,300

Maksim 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maksim: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maksim means

Maksim is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Maksim is used in English and Albanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,678 boys were recorded with the name Maksim between 1993 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 204 in 2011; its best national rank was #969 in 2011.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,859 in 2020 to #2,466 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,180 in 2015 to #2,466 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 Maksim?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 60,300
55 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 31,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,466
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
41,781 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maksim 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 41,781 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maksim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maksims were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maksim was born before 2013 — so the typical Maksim is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
55.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,678
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 55.8% of all recorded uses (1,494).

Is Maksim 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
−536
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−607
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,286
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.35×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
27.0%
Peak was 2011 (204)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#969
2011

Spellings of Maksim

Maksim is not the most common spelling — Makai is, with 24.5% against Maksim's 7.1%.

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 Maksim is used

Across 2016–2025, Maksim was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 5,882 boys, against 1 in 17,521 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

117 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 5,882
  2. 2New York1 in 10,000
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 11,111
  4. 4Washington1 in 11,111
  5. 5Florida1 in 12,500
  6. 6California1 in 14,286
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 16,667
  8. 8Connecticut1 in 25,000

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.

Maksim around the world

Where Maksim 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
    2001–2025
    #1,798
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2010–2012
    #669
    in 2012
  • Northern Ireland
    2008–2010
    #387
    in 2010
  • Ireland
    2006–2025
    #577
    in 2025
  • France
    1998–2025
    #2,810
    in 2025
  • Norway
    2023–2025
    #417
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #1,281
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2005–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Maksim

People whose public names include Maksim, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Maksim in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Maksim. Linked forms have their own page here.

MaxMaximMaksymMaximeMassimoMaximilianMassimilianoMàximMáximo

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Maksim by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,466
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 607
Best rank ever
#969
2011
Peak year
2011
204 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,678
Count in 2025
55

Names similar to Maksim

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

MakariMakaioMakhaiMakhiMakoaMakotoMaksymMakiahMakanaMakaniMakaiMakelMakyeQasimMakhariMakiKassimKasimMakarMakellMakeenAsimWassimNissim

Names with a curve like Maksim

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Maksim, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KaidynBraylinDraydenDieselJarielAbdirahmanDeeganAarushJayseJayvenMaddixAnsh

Sibling names for Maksim

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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