girls:
142 births since 1977
#5574 (2nd percentile)
boys:
148 births since 1979
#4438 (3rd percentile)
overall:
290 births since 1977
#7449 (4th percentile)
The name Maxi is the #7,449 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 290 recorded births since 1977. This represents the 3.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,438 (3.2% percentile) for all time with 148 births since 1979. For girls, it ranks #5,574 (2.5% percentile) for all time with 142 births since 1977.
Maxi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1977 (1977 for girls and 1979 for boys). Birth data for Maxi is available in 31 out of the 47 years between 1977 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Maxi is truly gender-neutral, with nearly equal distribution between boys and girls. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Maxi were boys. Interestingly, until around 2006, the name was more popular for girls (96.0% girls from 1977 to 2005), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (86.7% boys from 2006 to 2023).
For boys, Maxi reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #877) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Maxi ranks #904 for boys (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 82.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Maxi reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #755) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Maxi".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Maxi is pronounced as MAK-see, which has 2 syllables.
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