Max
A boys’ name of Latin origin, meaning greatest; diminutive of Maximus.
How Max has moved
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| Year | US rank |
|---|---|
| 2015 | #118 |
| 2016 | #118 |
| 2017 | #128 |
| 2018 | #136 |
| 2019 | #137 |
| 2020 | #147 |
| 2021 | #159 |
| 2022 | #156 |
| 2023 | #163 |
| 2024 | #175 |
| 2025 | #180 |
Max by the numbers
In 2025, 1,061 babies in England and Wales were named Max. In the US, 3,162 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 3,955 babies in 2009, making it a 2000s name.
At its height, in 1915, about 1 in 610 American boys born that year was called Max.
Other names that come from Maximus
Like Max, 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)
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Max. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Max
Names that are said the same way as Max, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.