boys:
4.4k births since 1927
#1838 (60th percentile)
overall:
4.4k births since 1927
#4149 (46th percentile)
The name Maxton is the #4,149 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,355 recorded births since 1927. This represents the 46.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 46.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,838 (59.9% percentile) for all time with 4,355 births since 1927.
Maxton first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1927 (first recorded for boys in 1927). Birth data for Maxton is available in 39 out of the 97 years between 1927 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.
For boys, Maxton reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 37.3% percentile (ranked #573) with 190 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 190 births per million (ranked 37.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Maxton ranks #758 for boys (16.8% percentile) with 86 births per million, which is 45.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Maxton".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Maxton is pronounced as MAK-stuhn, which has 2 syllables.
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