girls:
1k births since 1912
#4683 (18th percentile)
boys:
163.3k births since 1880
#209 (95th percentile)
overall:
164.3k births since 1880
#455 (94th percentile)
The name Max is the #455 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 164,310 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 94.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 94.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #209 (95.5% percentile) for all time with 163,277 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,683 (18.0% percentile) for all time with 1,033 births since 1912.
Max has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1912 for girls).
The name Max has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Max reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 89.3% percentile (ranked #95) with 1,947 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 1,947 births per million (ranked 89.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2013, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Max ranks #160 for boys (82.5% percentile) with 1,200 births per million, which is 61.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Max reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 7.1% percentile (ranked #880) with 41 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 41 births per million (ranked 7.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Max is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #880 (7.1% percentile) with 41 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Max".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Max. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Max is pronounced as maks, which has 1 syllables.
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