Meaning not yet researched.
Maxon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 42 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,549 in 2015.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,549 in 2015; #2,966 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Maxon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,966 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2015, at #1,549.
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Maxon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 42 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,549 in 2015 · most boys in one year: 108 (2018).
In 2025, 42 US boys were named Maxon, making it the 2,966th most common boys’ name of the year, up 112 places from #3,078 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 40 boys named Maxon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,549, reached in 2015. The most boys given the name in a single year was 108, in 2018. For comparison, it was #1,549 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maxon in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 5 babies. In all, 1,466 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 852 babies named Maxon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 738 US boys were named Maxon; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 108. In 2025 that was about 1 in 40,668 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Maxon ranked highest in California in 2025, at #2,675 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Maxine (115,989 babies since 1880) and Maxson (1,056 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Macson, Maxsen and Makson 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Macson (55), Maxsen (46), Makson (31), Maxeen (18).
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 Maxon 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 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #2,675 | #1,715 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 42 | #2,966 |
| 2024 | — | — | 40 | #3,078 |
| 2023 | — | — | 39 | #3,158 |
| 2022 | — | — | 74 | #2,054 |
| 2021 | — | — | 61 | #2,291 |
| 2020 | — | — | 83 | #1,809 |
| 2019 | — | — | 99 | #1,647 |
| 2018 | — | — | 108 | #1,562 |
| 2017 | — | — | 95 | #1,678 |
| 2016 | — | — | 97 | #1,650 |
| 2015 | — | — | 105 | #1,549 |
| 2014 | — | — | 101 | #1,571 |
| 2013 | — | — | 76 | #1,874 |
| 2012 | — | — | 67 | #2,060 |
| 2011 | — | — | 49 | #2,538 |
| 2010 | — | — | 55 | #2,346 |
| 2009 | — | — | 33 | #3,381 |
| 2008 | — | — | 47 | #2,662 |
| 2007 | — | — | 32 | #3,419 |
| 2006 | — | — | 16 | #5,457 |
| 2005 | — | — | 19 | #4,581 |
| 2004 | — | — | 26 | #3,601 |
| 2003 | — | — | 16 | #4,965 |
| 2002 | — | — | 18 | #4,432 |
| 2001 | — | — | 16 | #4,823 |
| 2000 | — | — | 7 | #8,802 |
| 1999 | — | — | 8 | #7,622 |
| 1998 | — | — | 12 | #5,354 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #8,090 |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #3,887 |
| 1927 | — | — | 5 | #4,589 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,363 |
| 1916 | — | — | 5 | #4,286 |
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).