Max

What Max means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Max yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #48 vs #180 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Max?

US: Falling: down from #117 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #28 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2011, when 3,956 boys got the name (#96 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 843 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 256 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 137 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in DC (7.12 per 1,000 boys), AK (4.4 per 1,000 boys), ND (3.28 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Max is #180 in the US and #48 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 98.0% of US babies named Max were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Maxx92 US
• Maks8 US · 7 E&W
• Mox8 US
• Macs0 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Max

Boys

• Adrian#74“from the Roman harbor Hadria”^*
• Dominic#106Editor’s note Down from #68 in 2015 to #106 in 2025 in the US
• Maximilian#590German, meaning “the greatest”^*
• Titus#358“honorable”^*
• Julian#25“Roman personal name”^*
• Julius#424Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #424 vs #976 in 2025

For a sister

• Annabelle#343Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #92 in 2015, #343 in 2025
• Lillian#57possibly “lily”^*
• Lilly#252Form of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*
• Lilliana#445Editor’s note Down from #270 in 2015 to #445 in 2025 in the US
• Lilianna#890Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1980, with 6 babies
• Harmony#276From the word “harmony”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Latin, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Max’s. Rank is US 2025.