Meaning not yet researched.
Maxim: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 114 in 2025. Its best rank was #687 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #687 in 2012; #1,524 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Maxim in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,524 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #687.
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Maxim: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 114 boys in 2025. Peak: #687 in 2012 · most boys in one year: 346 (2012).
In 2025, 114 US boys were named Maxim, making it the 1,524th most common boys’ name of the year, down 71 places from #1,453 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 125 boys named Maxim in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #687, reached in 2012. That year also had the most boys given the name: 346. For comparison, it was #780 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maxim in 70 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1923 with 8 babies. In all, 6,998 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,904 babies named Maxim.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,899 US boys were named Maxim; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 265. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,983 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Maxim ranked highest in Colorado in 2025, at #819 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Massimo (4,026 babies since 1880) and Maksim (2,678 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Maksym, Maxum and Maxym are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and Moldovan. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Maksym (540), Maxum (89), Maxym (47), Maxsim (42).
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 Maxim 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 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado | 6 | #819 | — |
| Washington | 7 | #862 | #391 |
| New York | 11 | #1,093 | #494 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,131 | #499 |
| California | 18 | #1,140 | #598 |
| Florida | 10 | #1,239 | #480 |
| Texas | 9 | #1,854 | #1,609 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 114 | #1,524 |
| 2024 | — | — | 125 | #1,453 |
| 2023 | — | — | 142 | #1,337 |
| 2022 | — | — | 174 | #1,176 |
| 2021 | — | — | 197 | #1,078 |
| 2020 | — | — | 177 | #1,114 |
| 2019 | — | — | 216 | #986 |
| 2018 | — | — | 240 | #903 |
| 2017 | — | — | 249 | #871 |
| 2016 | — | — | 265 | #847 |
| 2015 | — | — | 301 | #780 |
| 2014 | — | — | 335 | #721 |
| 2013 | — | — | 319 | #732 |
| 2012 | — | — | 346 | #687 |
| 2011 | — | — | 313 | #728 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,277 | 314 | #730 |
| 2009 | — | — | 319 | #732 |
| 2008 | — | — | 334 | #704 |
| 2007 | — | — | 273 | #790 |
| 2006 | — | — | 236 | #853 |
| 2005 | — | — | 177 | #983 |
| 2004 | — | — | 194 | #896 |
| 2003 | — | — | 204 | #851 |
| 2002 | — | — | 168 | #956 |
| 2001 | — | — | 167 | #932 |
| 2000 | — | — | 158 | #964 |
| 1999 | — | — | 109 | #1,185 |
| 1998 | — | — | 94 | #1,282 |
| 1997 | — | — | 82 | #1,360 |
| 1996 | — | — | 64 | #1,566 |
| 1995 | — | — | 46 | #1,877 |
| 1994 | — | — | 50 | #1,764 |
| 1993 | — | — | 47 | #1,815 |
| 1992 | — | — | 41 | #1,970 |
| 1991 | — | — | 30 | #2,378 |
| 1990 | — | — | 35 | #2,114 |
| 1989 | — | — | 29 | #2,332 |
| 1988 | — | — | 31 | #2,077 |
| 1987 | — | — | 35 | #1,855 |
| 1986 | — | — | 25 | #2,268 |
| 1985 | — | — | 9 | #4,558 |
| 1984 | — | — | 16 | #2,902 |
| 1983 | — | — | 8 | #4,768 |
| 1982 | — | — | 11 | #3,855 |
| 1981 | — | — | 12 | #3,538 |
| 1980 | — | — | 6 | #5,982 |
| 1979 | — | — | 9 | #4,276 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,533 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,372 |
| 1973 | — | — | 6 | #4,884 |
| 1971 | — | — | 9 | #3,561 |
| 1966 | — | — | 6 | #3,786 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #3,889 |
| 1963 | — | — | 6 | #3,891 |
| 1962 | — | — | 8 | #3,213 |
| 1961 | — | — | 6 | #3,915 |
| 1957 | — | — | 6 | #3,827 |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #4,289 |
| 1953 | — | — | 7 | #3,313 |
| 1952 | — | — | 7 | #3,281 |
| 1946 | — | — | 7 | #3,089 |
| 1944 | — | — | 6 | #3,333 |
| 1943 | — | — | 7 | #3,137 |
| 1942 | — | — | 8 | #2,863 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,831 |
| 1940 | — | — | 6 | #3,345 |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #3,885 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #4,021 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,595 |
| 1923 | — | — | 8 | #3,357 |
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).