Maks
A boys’ name of Latin origin, meaning greatest; a form of Maximus.
Maks by the numbers
In 2025, 7 babies in England and Wales were named Maks. In the US, 18 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 43 babies in 2011, making it a 2010s name.
Other names that come from Maximus
Like Maks, each of these traces back to Maximus: a form of it, a name built from it, or a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
- Maximusgreatest or largest1,951 in the US (2017)
- Maxinegreatest; feminine form of Maximus309 in the US (2017)
- Macsengreat; a form of Maximus141 in England and Wales (2025)
- Maksimgreatest; form of Maximus139 in the US (2017)
- Maxongreatest; a form of Maximus95 in the US (2017)
- Maxsonson of Maximus; the greatest one55 in the US (2017)
- Maximethe greatest; a form of Maximus15 in England and Wales (2025)
- Maximinothe greatest; a form of Maximus25 in the US (2017)
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