Maxwell
Maxwell is ranked 182nd among boys in 2024 (2,021 births). Its best rank was 106th, in 1999.
- Rank in 2024
- #182same as 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2,0210.12% of boys
- Peak year
- 20143,739 births
- Best rank
- #106in 1999
- Since 1880
- 106,804people given the name
The story in the numbers
106,804 boys have been named Maxwell in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2014, with 3,739 births — 0.19% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 107 → 182).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2006, and the 2010s alone account for 30%. It has spent 140 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Maxwell | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 72 | |
| 1890s | 131 | |
| 1900s | 230 | |
| 1910s | 1,210 | |
| 1920s | 1,158 | |
| 1930s | 737 | |
| 1940s | 642 | |
| 1950s | 723 | |
| 1960s | 632 | |
| 1970s | 968 | |
| 1980s | 5,808 | |
| 1990s | 20,909 | |
| 2000s | 30,049 | |
| 2010s | 32,446 | |
| 2020s | 11,089 |
In 2014, its biggest year
Maxwell was the 107th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2014 were Noah, Liam, Mason, Jacob and William. See all of 2014.
Names that rose and fell with Maxwell
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dezmondpeak 2009
- Kameronpeak 2015
- Saadpeak 2012
- Maximepeak 2001
- Zechariahpeak 2015
- Alekpeak 1999
- Keelanpeak 2015
- Loganpeak 2007
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.