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Maxim

#1,524 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Maksim

Maxim has been given to 6,998 babies in the U.S. since 1923. In 2025 it ranked #1,524 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 346 recorded.

Babies named Maxim, 2025

1 in 29,100

Maxim over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maxim: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Maksim

Latin

What Maxim means

Maxim is a alternate transcription of Maksim.

Origin, language, and formation

Maxim is used in Czech. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maksim, Maximus, Maxime and Макси́м.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Maxim is pronounced [ˈmaksɪm].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,992 boys were recorded with the name Maxim between 1923 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 346 in 2012; its best national rank was #687 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,114 in 2020 to #1,524 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #780 in 2015 to #1,524 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 girls were recorded with the name Maxim between 2010 and 2010. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2010; its best national rank was #16,270 in 2010.

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 Maxim?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 29,100
114 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 15,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,524
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
20,158 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maxim 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 20,158 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maxim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maxims were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maxim was born before 2011 — so the typical Maxim is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
41.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,930
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 41.4% of all recorded uses (2,898).

Is Maxim 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
−71
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−410
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−744
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.38×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
32.9%
Peak was 2012 (346)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#687
2012

Spellings of Maxim

Maxim is not the most common spelling — Max is, with 35.3% against Maxim's 1.5%.

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 Maxim is used

Across 2016–2025, Maxim was most concentrated in Washington — about 1 in 3,333 boys, against 1 in 7,542 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).

230 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Washington1 in 3,333
  2. 2Florida1 in 3,846
  3. 3New York1 in 4,167
  4. 4Illinois1 in 4,762
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 5,000
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 5,263
  7. 7California1 in 6,250
  8. 8Oregon1 in 7,692

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.

Maxim around the world

Where Maxim 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
    1996–2025
    #593
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2002–2025
    #762
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2013–2013
    #398
    in 2013
  • Ireland
    2000–2025
    #676
    in 2025
  • France
    1967–2025
    #1,238
    in 2025
  • Norway
    2023–2023
    #451
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #536
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1944–2013
    #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 Maxim

People whose public names include Maxim, 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.

Maxim in other languages

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

MaksimMaksymMaximeMassimoMáximoMaksims

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

Maxim by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,524
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 410
Best rank ever
#687
2012
Peak year
2012
346 that year
First recorded
1923
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,992
Count in 2025
114

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#16,270
2010
Peak year
2010
6 that year
First recorded
2010
Last recorded
2010
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Maxim

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

MaxieMaximoMaxtonMaxxMaxonMaximeMaxenMaxsonMaximusMaximinoMaximosMaxximMaxwellMaxeyMaxiMaxxonMaxtenMaxtynMaximillianMaxMaximilianMaxineMaxymMaxximus

Names with a curve like Maxim

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

XzavierGiovaniKonnorDavianAlexzanderDominikZavierEanSemajJordynKorbinKolten

Sibling names for Maxim

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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