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Maxen

#4,978 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Macsen

Maxen has been given to 517 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #4,978 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 59 recorded.

Babies named Maxen, 2025

1 in 166,000

Maxen over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maxen: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Macsen

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maxen means

Maxen is a form of Macsen.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Macsen.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 517 boys were recorded with the name Maxen between 2002 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 59 in 2016; its best national rank was #2,269 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,368 in 2020 to #4,978 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,469 in 2015 to #4,978 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.

How common is Maxen?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 85,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,978
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maxen 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maxen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maxens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maxen was born before 2016 — so the typical Maxen is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
68.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
517
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 68.1% of all recorded uses (352).

Is Maxen 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
+206
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−610
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,509
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.39×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
33.9%
Peak was 2016 (59)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,269
2016

Spellings of Maxen

Maxen is not the most common spelling — Mason is, with 25.9% against Maxen's 0.04%.

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 Maxen is used

Across 1910–2025, Maxen was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 604,800 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Ohio1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Maxen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maxen around the world

Where Maxen 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
    2010–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    2003–2025
    #5,990
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2011–2020
    #2,570
    in 2020

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Maxen by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,978
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 610
Best rank ever
#2,269
2016
Peak year
2016
59 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
517
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Maxen

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

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Sibling names for Maxen

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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