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How popular is the name Maximus?
Births per year, rank history and how many Maximuses are alive today.
Maximus (male) sits just outside the top 100 boys' names in England and Wales, ranked 219th in 2025 with 228 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2015, when 325 babies were given the name, the 181st most popular that year. Numbers have been stable in recent years. At least 5,300 babies have been named Maximus in England and Wales since 1998. Common short forms of Maximus include Mac.
The Maximus you are most likely to meet is around 10 years old. Half of all Maximuses born in England and Wales are between 6 and 15, and there are at least 5,300 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 1.7% chance that at least one of them will be called Maximus.
How many babies are named Maximus each year?
Where does Maximus rank among boys' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Maximus most popular?
Maximus peaked in 2015, when 325 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Maximus?
At least 5,300 people named Maximus born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Maximus?
Most living Maximuses are between 6 and 15; the most common age is about 10.
Is Maximus becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.