How popular is “Max” in the USA?

Number of people named “Max” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Max” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Max” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Max” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Max” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Max” by birth year

This chart shows how “Max” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1880	52	0.000258085		52	-100%
1881	66	0.000342523		66	-100%
1882	74	0.000334036		74	-100%
1883	75	0.000345708		75	-100%
1884	80	0.000328595		80	-100%
1885	71	0.000294784		71	-100%
1886	73	0.00028592		73	-100%
1887	73	0.000295078		73	-100%
1888	118	0.000394024		118	-100%
1889	83	0.000287251		83	-100%
1890	99	0.000328466		99	-100%
1891	91	0.000317435		91	-100%
1892	95	0.000284113		95	-100%
1893	107	0.000329005		107	-100%
1894	99	0.000292303		99	-100%
1895	95	0.00027064		95	-100%
1896	145	0.000405613		145	-100%
1897	122	0.000351629		122	-100%
1898	132	0.000346043		132	-100%
1899	127	0.000374373		127	-100%
1900	141	0.000313154		141	-100%
1901	110	0.000318092		110	-100%
1902	133	0.000343907		133	-100%
1903	110	0.000288562		110	-100%
1904	134	0.000332107		134	-100%
1905	140	0.000330249		140	-100%
1906	156	0.000364102		156	-100%
1907	197	0.000423301		197	-100%
1908	218	0.000446128		218	-100%
1909	228	0.000445988		228	-100%
1910	277	0.000468926		277	-100%
1911	360	0.000558765		360	-100%
1912	739	0.000747929	5	734	-99%
1913	897	0.000788842		897	-100%
1914	1165	0.00082254	6	1159	-99%
1915	1434	0.000782569		1434	-100%
1916	1493	0.000771809		1493	-100%
1917	1518	0.000756447	7	1511	-99%
1918	1544	0.000711157	8	1536	-99%
1919	1469	0.000696128	11	1458	-99%
1920	1571	0.000694321	10	1561	-99%
1921	1570	0.000672519	12	1558	-98%
1922	1532	0.000669242	14	1518	-98%
1923	1453	0.000631058	13	1440	-98%
1924	1404	0.000589517	7	1397	-99%
1925	1395	0.000597865	10	1385	-99%
1926	1264	0.000550545	10	1254	-98%
1927	1239	0.0005342	12	1227	-98%
1928	1417	0.000626731	12	1405	-98%
1929	1349	0.000615375	13	1336	-98%
1930	1189	0.000534794	8	1181	-99%
1931	1193	0.000566911	10	1183	-98%
1932	1165	0.000551795	11	1154	-98%
1933	1136	0.000568157	12	1124	-98%
1934	1343	0.000646663	8	1335	-99%
1935	1293	0.00061869	10	1283	-98%
1936	1248	0.000600699		1248	-100%
1937	1106	0.000519086		1106	-100%
1938	1171	0.000529248	7	1164	-99%
1939	979	0.000444305		979	-100%
1940	952	0.00041343		952	-100%
1941	931	0.000382117		931	-100%
1942	977	0.000357637	6	971	-99%
1943	880	0.000311774	5	875	-99%
1944	780	0.000289954		780	-100%
1945	810	0.000305325	7	803	-98%
1946	841	0.000263198		841	-100%
1947	874	0.000242621	5	869	-99%
1948	743	0.000215205		743	-100%
1949	761	0.000218378		761	-100%
1950	755	0.000215508		755	-100%
1951	811	0.000220157	6	805	-99%
1952	770	0.000202738	7	763	-98%
1953	730	0.000189431	5	725	-99%
1954	748	0.000187906	5	743	-99%
1955	724	0.00018032		724	-100%
1956	748	0.00018142		748	-100%
1957	746	0.000177528	6	740	-98%
1958	736	0.00017804		736	-100%
1959	697	0.000167629	6	691	-98%
1960	670	0.000161298		670	-100%
1961	652	0.0001574		652	-100%
1962	580	0.000143729	7	573	-98%
1963	549	0.000138699		549	-100%
1964	525	0.000135045		525	-100%
1965	427	0.000117779	5	422	-98%
1966	448	0.000128897		448	-100%
1967	395	0.000116351		395	-100%
1968	414	0.000122543		414	-100%
1969	375	0.000107904		375	-100%
1970	486	0.000134756		486	-100%
1971	409	0.00011916		409	-100%
1972	390	0.000124086		390	-100%
1973	434	0.000143857		434	-100%
1974	413	0.000135855		413	-100%
1975	415	0.000137445		415	-100%
1976	415	0.00013677	5	410	-98%
1977	403	0.000126869		403	-100%
1978	420	0.000132331	6	414	-97%
1979	459	0.000137962		459	-100%
1980	486	0.000141094		486	-100%
1981	501	0.000144824		501	-100%
1982	463	0.000131985		463	-100%
1983	536	0.000154764	5	531	-98%
1984	632	0.000181153		632	-100%
1985	769	0.00021546	8	761	-98%
1986	930	0.000261451	7	923	-98%
1987	1460	0.000404924	7	1453	-99%
1988	1403	0.000379698	17	1386	-98%
1989	1617	0.000420607	11	1606	-99%
1990	1791	0.000453133		1791	-100%
1991	1842	0.000472882	13	1829	-99%
1992	1887	0.000491243	10	1877	-99%
1993	1896	0.000502881	9	1887	-99%
1994	1631	0.000438718	7	1624	-99%
1995	1577	0.000430621	12	1565	-98%
1996	1498	0.000410727	10	1488	-99%
1997	1705	0.000470248	7	1698	-99%
1998	2164	0.00058833	7	2157	-99%
1999	2298	0.000622112		2298	-100%
2000	2363	0.000625148	8	2355	-99%
2001	2413	0.000644603	9	2404	-99%
2002	2328	0.000622744	9	2319	-99%
2003	2465	0.000648289	5	2460	-100%
2004	2494	0.000652722	13	2481	-99%
2005	2501	0.000650481	7	2494	-99%
2006	2655	0.0006711	12	2643	-99%
2007	2891	0.000723169	9	2882	-99%
2008	3379	0.000859651	7	3372	-100%
2009	3969	0.001038958	11	3958	-99%
2010	3856	0.001043364	8	3848	-100%
2011	3964	0.001083714	8	3956	-100%
2012	3711	0.001014664	15	3696	-99%
2013	3539	0.000970741	19	3520	-99%
2014	3511	0.000947286	14	3497	-99%
2015	3442	0.000930041	23	3419	-99%
2016	3477	0.000947748	54	3423	-97%
2017	3187	0.000891171	42	3145	-97%
2018	2933	0.000834211	56	2877	-96%
2019	2780	0.000800937	28	2752	-98%
2020	2555	0.000764838	71	2484	-94%
2021	2463	0.000726989	53	2410	-96%
2022	2440	0.000721225	52	2388	-96%
2023	2274	0.000686761	73	2201	-94%
2024	2165	0.000650443	45	2120	-96%

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