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Maxton

#1,180 in 2025Boys' name

Mack's town

Maxton has been given to 4,685 babies in the U.S. since 1927. In 2025 it ranked #1,180 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 377 recorded.

Babies named Maxton, 2025

1 in 18,900

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maxton: meaning, origin, and history

Mack's town

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maxton means

Maxton means “Mack's town”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,685 boys were recorded with the name Maxton between 1927 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 377 in 2017; its best national rank was #672 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #989 in 2020 to #1,180 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #805 in 2015 to #1,180 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 Maxton?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 18,900
175 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 9,760
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,180
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
13,132 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maxton 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 13,132 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maxton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maxtons were born

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

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
57.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,680
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 57.9% of all recorded uses (2,714).

Is Maxton 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
+93
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−191
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−375
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.61×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.4%
Peak was 2017 (377)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#672
2017

Spellings of Maxton

Maxton is not the most common spelling — Mason is, with 21.8% against Maxton's 0.30%.

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 Maxton is used

Across 2016–2025, Maxton was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 2,941 boys, against 1 in 7,862 across all states with data. It was least common in Alabama (1 in 33,333).

334 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 2,941
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 2,941
  3. 3Ohio1 in 3,125
  4. 4Iowa1 in 3,333
  5. 5Indiana1 in 3,704
  6. 6Wisconsin1 in 4,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 5,263
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 5,556

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.

Maxton around the world

Where Maxton 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
    1998–2024
    #3,255
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #1,817
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2010–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Maxton by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,180
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 191
Best rank ever
#672
2017
Peak year
2017
377 that year
First recorded
1927
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,685
Count in 2025
175

Names similar to Maxton

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

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Names with a curve like Maxton

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

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Sibling names for Maxton

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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