Max

2,519 people in the United States were counted with the surname Max in the 2020 census, making it the 11,886th most common in the country. That is about one person in 119,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,519
Rank: 11,886th
How common: 1 in 119,000
Per 100,000: 0.84

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Max described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 75.7%
Hispanic or Latino 9.5%
Black, not Hispanic 6.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.6%

Notable people called Max

Ava Max (born 1994)American singer and songwriter
Philipp Max (born 1993)German footballer
Martin Max (born 1968)German footballer
MAX (born 1992)American singer
Gabriel von Max (1840–1915)German painter
Manfred Max-Neef (1932–2019)Professor of economics; environmentalist; Chilean presidential candidate
Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria (born 1937)Bavarian Royal
Karl Max, Prince Lichnowsky (1860–1928)German diplomat, noble

People named Max with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Max

Also a first name

Max has been given to 168,577 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2009. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.