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Maxwell

Pronounced /ˈmækswɛl/

Rank in 2024
#182
Born in 2024
2,021
Peak year
2014 · #107
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Cooling
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 2,021 boys were named Maxwell, about 1 in every 849.
  • It peaked in 2014 with 3,739 babies, ranked #107.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 106,804 boys have been named Maxwell since 1880.

Who else has this name

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

  1. 0.1
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. 0.6
    Millennials
  6. 1.5
    Gen Z
  7. 1.6
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 2,333 babies, 0.14 per 1,000. Silent: 1,355 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,286 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,493 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Millennials: 18,082 babies, 0.59 per 1,000. Gen Z: 47,798 babies, 1.52 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 34,232 babies, 1.58 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From an earlier form Mackeswell, meaning "Mack's well or spring", from Old English welle (“well”).

  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈmækswɛl/

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