Maksim
About 2,678 American babies have been named Maksim since 1993, most of them around 2011. In 2025 it ranked 2,451st. About 2,700 Maksims are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Maksim
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,678
- Estimated living today
- 2,700
- Median age today
- 12
- Peak year
- 2011
- Best rank
- 967th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,451st
- First recorded
- 1993
How old the living Maksims are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,678 babies given the name since 1993, about 2,700 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 2,200 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Maksims
- Maksim Bahdanovič (1891–1917)Belarusian writer
- Maksim Shatskikh (born 1978)Uzbekistani footballer
- Maksim Surayev (born 1972)Russian cosmonaut and politician
- MakSim (born 1983)Russian singer
- Maksim Mrvica (born 1975)Croatian pianist
- Maksim Purkayev (1894–1953)Soviet general
- Maksim Kovalevsky (1851–1916)Ukrainian sociologist
- Maksim Kanunnikov (born 1991)Russian footballer
People named Maksim with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Maksim is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Maksim is most concentrated in Washington (6.1×), Florida (2.6×), Illinois (2.3×), California (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2011
The most popular boys’ names the year Maksim peaked:
Maksim elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Maksim | 554 | 637th |
| Switzerland boys | Maksim | 389 | 257th |
| Poland boys | Maksim | 349 birth registrations | 165th |
| Italy boys | Maksim | 334 | — |
| France boys | Maksim | 305 | 1,286th |
| Ireland boys | Maksim | 121 | 354th |
| Belgium boys | Maksim | 80 | 734th |
| Norway boys | Maksim | 19 | 373rd |
| Northern Ireland boys | Maksim | 8 | 291st |
| Scotland boys | Maksim | 6 | 638th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Maksim: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Maksim | 301 | 0.024% | 209th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Maksim | 73 | 0.017% | 293rd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Maksim | 14 | 0.021% | 92nd |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Maksim | 1 | 0.027% | 9th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Maksim is most concentrated in St. Gallen, where 0.04% of children were given it – 40 of them.
Maksim: rank by region
In 2025, Maksim was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Maksim | 806 | 6 |
In 2025, Maksim was given 2 times or more in 5 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Maksim | 188 | 4 |
| Małopolskie | Maksim | 182 | 4 |
| Mazowieckie | Maksim | 235 | 4 |
| Śląskie | Maksim | 254 | 2 |
| Wielkopolskie | Maksim | 248 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Maksim by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 32 | 279th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Maksim among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Maksim | 353 | 408 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Maksim lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,198 men called Maksim were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alicante/Alacant | Maksim | 239 | 0.238 | 392 |
| Valencia/València | Maksim | 195 | 0.144 | 524 |
| Tarragona | Maksim | 46 | 0.105 | 734 |
| Málaga | Maksim | 90 | 0.103 | 619 |
| Girona | Maksim | 39 | 0.094 | 791 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Maksim | 47 | 0.088 | 1,000 |
Listed in 23 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 29 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Maksim against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.