Maximus
Last seen for girls in 2017 at #15,902 · #275 for boys in 2025, 1,249 births
Given to boys >99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2016 · 2,129 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 34,662since 1997
Maximus over time
Rank among boys' names. Maximus has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #275 | 1,249 | |
| 2024 | — | #331 | 1,045 | |
| 2023 | — | #319 | 1,041 | |
| 2022 | — | #270 | 1,274 | |
| 2021 | — | #262 | 1,317 | |
| 2020 | — | #250 | 1,407 | |
| 2019 | — | #228 | 1,647 | |
| 2018 | — | #212 | 1,820 | |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #201 | 1,964 |
| 2016 | — | #187 | 2,129 | |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #197 | 2,066 |
| 2014 | — | #192 | 2,137 | |
| 2013 | — | #200 | 1,932 | |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 | #206 | 1,844 |
| 2011 | — | #212 | 1,649 | |
| 2010 | — | #234 | 1,489 | |
| 2009 | — | #249 | 1,396 | |
| 2008 | — | #258 | 1,355 | |
| 2007 | — | #322 | 996 | |
| 2006 | — | #375 | 795 | |
| 2005 | — | #378 | 766 | |
| 2004 | — | #424 | 614 | |
| 2003 | — | #370 | 704 | |
| 2002 | — | #313 | 912 | |
| 2001 | — | #311 | 892 | |
| 2000 | — | #850 | 188 | |
| 1999 | — | #5,656 | 11 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,849 | 18 | |
| 1997 | — | #9,265 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Maximus! It came in at #9,265, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1997, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Maximus
- 56 spots since 2024 (#331 → #275)
- 25 spots since 2020 (#250 → #275)
- 78 spots since 2015 (#197 → #275)
- Biggest jump: 4,806 spots in 2000 (#5,656 → #850)
- Biggest drop: 57 spots in 2003 (#313 → #370)
- Debuted 1997
- Peaked 2016 at #187 (2,129 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 2000–2025
- Highest: 1 in 891 boys born in 2016 were named Maximus (0.11%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,368 boys born in 2025 (0.07%)
- 53.9% of all boys named Maximus (18,677) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 34 | #3,849 (1998) | #6,257 |
| 2000s | 8,618 | #249 (2009) | #385 |
| 2010s | 18,677 | #187 (2016) | #207 |
| 2020s | 7,333 | #250 (2020) | #285 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Maximus in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 345,292 of them was named Maximus, which outranked 13.8% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #14,124Zyleigh6
- #14,124Zyllah6
- #14,124Zyona6
- #15,902Maximus5
- #15,902Aadilynn5
- #15,902Aafiyah5
- #15,902Aaheli5
Tied with 2,546 names at #15,902; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 942 of them was named Maximus, which outranked 98.6% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.