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Maxy

Boys' name

Diminutive of Max or Maximilian or Maxwell or Maxine

Maxy has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 2011. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2011, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Maxy, 2015

1 in 740,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maxy: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Max or Maximilian or Maxwell or Maxine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maxy means

Maxy is a diminutive of Max or Maximilian or Maxwell or Maxine.

Origin, language, and formation

Maxy is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Max, Maximilian, Maxwell and Maxine.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Maxy between 2011 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2011; its best national rank was #11,777 in 2011.

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 Maxy?

Maxy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 740,000
5 of 3,701,574 births
Among boys only
1 in 383,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,148 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maxy 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 2015 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 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maxy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maxys were born

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

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Maxy 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2011 (6)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#11,777
2011

Spellings of Maxy

Maxy is not the most common spelling — Mark is, with 42.0% against Maxy's <0.01%.

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.

Maxy around the world

Where Maxy 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.

  • France
    1997–1997
    #3,448
    in 1997

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Maxy by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,777
2011
Peak year
2011
6 that year
First recorded
2011
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Maxy

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

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Sibling names for Maxy

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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