girls:
17 births since 2012
#5699 (0th percentile)
boys:
32.3k births since 1997
#635 (86th percentile)
overall:
32.4k births since 1997
#1412 (82nd percentile)
The name Maximus is the #1,412 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 32,355 recorded births since 1997. This represents the 81.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 81.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #635 (86.2% percentile) for all time with 32,338 births since 1997. For girls, it ranks #5,699 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 17 births since 2012.
Maximus first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1997 (1997 for boys and 2012 for girls).
The name Maximus has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Maximus reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 80.2% percentile (ranked #183) with 1,050 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 1,050 births per million (ranked 80.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Maximus ranks #305 for boys (66.6% percentile) with 564 births per million, which is 53.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Maximus reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #935) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Maximus".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Maximus. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 60.0% confident that Maximus is pronounced as MAK-suh-muhs, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAK-sih-muhs, at 35.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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