girls:
100 births since 1980
#5616 (2nd percentile)
boys:
3.9k births since 1980
#1986 (57th percentile)
overall:
4k births since 1980
#4353 (44th percentile)
The name Maxx is the #4,353 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,985 recorded births since 1980. This represents the 43.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 43.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,986 (56.7% percentile) for all time with 3,885 births since 1980. For girls, it ranks #5,616 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 100 births since 1980.
Maxx first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1980 . Birth data for Maxx is available in 42 out of the 44 years between 1980 and 2023 (42 years for boys and 15 years for girls). 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 Maxx has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.5% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 90.2% of babies named Maxx were boys.
For boys, Maxx reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 23.0% percentile (ranked #678) with 102 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 102 births per million (ranked 23.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2013, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Maxx ranks #861 for boys (5.5% percentile) with 30 births per million, which is 29.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Maxx reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #939) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Maxx ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 57.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Maxx".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Maxx is pronounced as maks, which has 1 syllables.
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