boys:
321 births since 2007
#4265 (7th percentile)
overall:
321 births since 2007
#7418 (4th percentile)
The name Maks is the #7,418 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 321 recorded births since 2007. This represents the 4.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,265 (6.9% percentile) for all time with 321 births since 2007.
Maks first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2007 (first recorded for boys in 2007).
For boys, Maks reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 4.3% percentile (ranked #843) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 21 births per million (ranked 4.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Maks ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 20.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Maks".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Maks. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 70.6% confident that Maks is pronounced as maks, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mahks, at 29.4% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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