Meaning not yet researched.
Maksim: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 55 in 2025. Its best rank was #969 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #969 in 2011; #2,466 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Maksim in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,466 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #969.
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Maksim: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 55 boys in 2025. Peak: #969 in 2011 · most boys in one year: 204 (2011).
In 2025, 55 US boys were named Maksim, making it the 2,466th most common boys’ name of the year, down 536 places from #1,930 in 2024. That is 27 fewer than the 82 boys named Maksim in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #969, reached in 2011. That year also had the most boys given the name: 204. For comparison, it was #1,180 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maksim in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1993 with 6 babies. In all, 2,678 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,494 babies named Maksim.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 970 US boys were named Maksim; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 144. In 2025 that was about 1 in 31,056 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Maksim ranked highest in Illinois in 2025, at #1,228 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Maxim (6,998 babies since 1880) and Massimo (4,026 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Maksim in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 6 | #1,228 | #1,149 |
| Florida | 6 | #1,766 | #1,073 |
| California | 8 | #1,933 | #1,245 |
| New York | 5 | #1,941 | #1,044 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 55 | #2,466 |
| 2024 | — | — | 82 | #1,930 |
| 2023 | — | — | 76 | #2,012 |
| 2022 | — | — | 83 | #1,901 |
| 2021 | — | — | 85 | #1,831 |
| 2020 | — | — | 80 | #1,859 |
| 2019 | — | — | 101 | #1,631 |
| 2018 | — | — | 125 | #1,404 |
| 2017 | — | — | 139 | #1,303 |
| 2016 | — | — | 144 | #1,271 |
| 2015 | — | — | 158 | #1,180 |
| 2014 | — | — | 131 | #1,333 |
| 2013 | — | — | 153 | #1,179 |
| 2012 | — | — | 161 | #1,141 |
| 2011 | — | — | 204 | #969 |
| 2010 | — | — | 178 | #1,084 |
| 2009 | — | — | 160 | #1,144 |
| 2008 | — | — | 134 | #1,299 |
| 2007 | — | — | 107 | #1,492 |
| 2006 | — | — | 61 | #2,139 |
| 2005 | — | — | 46 | #2,480 |
| 2004 | — | — | 44 | #2,521 |
| 2003 | — | — | 38 | #2,662 |
| 2002 | — | — | 28 | #3,234 |
| 2001 | — | — | 20 | #4,061 |
| 2000 | — | — | 24 | #3,490 |
| 1999 | — | — | 12 | #5,532 |
| 1998 | — | — | 16 | #4,322 |
| 1997 | — | — | 6 | #8,852 |
| 1996 | — | — | 6 | #8,588 |
| 1995 | — | — | 7 | #7,494 |
| 1994 | — | — | 8 | #6,758 |
| 1993 | — | — | 6 | #8,285 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).