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Max

Pronounced /mæks/

Rank in 2024
#175
Born in 2024
2,120
Peak year
2009 · #104
Origin
Latin

1880 to 2024

Steady
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 2,120 boys were named Max, about 1 in every 809.
  • It peaked in 2009 with 3,958 babies, ranked #104.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 165,413 boys have been named Max since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Max per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 1.4
    Greatest
  2. 1.0
    Silent
  3. 0.4
    Boomers
  4. 0.2
    Gen X
  5. 0.7
    Millennials
  6. 1.4
    Gen Z
  7. 1.6
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 23,625 babies, 1.41 per 1,000. Silent: 19,810 babies, 0.96 per 1,000. Boomers: 13,613 babies, 0.36 per 1,000. Gen X: 6,773 babies, 0.25 per 1,000. Millennials: 20,317 babies, 0.67 per 1,000. Gen Z: 45,021 babies, 1.43 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 34,236 babies, 1.58 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Borrowed from German Max, diminutive of Maximilian in the 19th century, later also used as a nickname for Maxwell.

  • A male given name from Latin.
  • A diminutive of the male given names Maximilian and Maxwell.
  • A diminutive of the female given name Maxine.
Origin
Latin
Say it
/mæks/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Max, CC BY-SA 4.0.