Maxus
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 6 babies a year in the US.
Maxus by the numbers
Maxus was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 9 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Maxus
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Maxus. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Marcusdedicated to Mars; warlike2,011 in the US (2017)
- Maximusgreatest or largest1,951 in the US (2017)
- Magnusgreat91 in England and Wales (2025)
- Maximthe greatest; superlative form of maximus65 in England and Wales (2025)
- Markusdedicated to mars; variant of Marcus223 in the US (2017)
- Maxongreatest; a form of Maximus95 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Maxus
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