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Maksym

#3,626 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Maximus

Maksym has been given to 540 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #3,626 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 39 recorded.

Babies named Maksym, 2025

1 in 107,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maksym: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Maximus

Latin

What Maksym means

Maksym is a form of Maximus.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Maksym → Maximus. The family’s meaning is “greatest”, recorded in the naming reference for Maximus.

Origin, language, and formation

Maksym is used in Polish. Its origins include Latin.

Maksym comes through Latin Maximus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maximus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Maksym is pronounced /ˈmak.sɘm/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 540 boys were recorded with the name Maksym between 2001 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 39 in 2014; its best national rank was #2,963 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,965 in 2020 to #3,626 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,647 in 2015 to #3,626 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 Maksym?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 107,000
31 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 55,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,626
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
74,127 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maksym 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 74,127 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maksym. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maksyms were born

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

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
49.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
540
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 49.6% of all recorded uses (268).

Is Maksym 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
+1,943
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,339
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+21
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.03×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
79.5%
Peak was 2014 (39)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,963
2014

Spellings of Maksym

Maksym is not the most common spelling — Maksim is, with 56.7% against Maksym's 11.4%.

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 Maksym is used

Across 1910–2025, Maksym was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 252,404 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 100,000
  2. 2Michigan1 in —
  3. 3New Jersey1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 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. Maksym has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maksym around the world

Where Maksym 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
    2003–2025
    #1,466
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2022–2022
    #590
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2007–2023
    #660
    in 2023
  • France
    2014–2025
    #5,489
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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.

Maksym by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,626
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,339
Best rank ever
#2,963
2014
Peak year
2014
39 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
540
Count in 2025
31

Names similar to Maksym

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

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Sibling names for Maksym

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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