Maks

given name · Latin script

Meaning: max (highest limit)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/məks/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Maks is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Switzerland it is the 61st most common given name.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 455as Max(measured from records)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 678as Max
  • ATAustria≈1 in 873as Max

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Maks itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

133,914 named Max, 2020

#992 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
566 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 637 (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MaxLatin(measured from records)
МаксCyrillic(measured from records)
맥스Hangul(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Max in US United States, DE Germany, FR France and 3 more and Макс in RU Russia, FI Finland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

max (highest limit)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Maks counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Maks is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#513133,914as Max1 in 2.5K133KMax566
DE Germany#145≈120,000 est.≈1 in 678—Max292
BR Brazil—36,236as Max1 in 5.8K36K—6
RU Russia#255≈29,000 est.≈1 in 4.9K#1,067Макс152
FR France—≈29,000 est.≈1 in 2.4K40KMax16
SE Sweden#18022,434as Max1 in 45522KMax119
AT Austria#139≈10,000 est.≈1 in 8734.7KMax148
CH Switzerland#61≈7,100 est.≈1 in 1.2K86Max131
FI Finland#8175,701as Max1 in 9776.8KМакс66
SI Slovenia#1763,2991 in 6373.4KMaks34

133,914 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); FSO — Vornamen der Neugeborenen und Wohnbevölkerung; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Maks is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Russia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Maeks, Mäks, Maḳs

  • Portuguese given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Spain, Russia, Peru

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Mąkš, Mäks, Måķş

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Côte d’Ivoire, Russia, Belgium

    Also written Mak'S

  • Danish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Sweden, United States

    Languages: Danish, Swedish

    Also written Måks

  • Estonian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Estonia, Finland, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Mäks

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Maks is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, Patronymischer Genitiv-Name zu einem germanischen Rufnamen; 32 Träger.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

  • In Latvian, little purse, wallet, pouch (small bag-like object without a handle, usually carried in the pocket or in a purse, for keeping small objects, especially paper money or coins)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In sco, third-person singular simple present indicative form of mak

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, third-person singular simple present indicative of mak

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In wbl, fly (insect)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1900195020002050Maks Furijan, b. 1904Maks Bajc, b. 1919Maks Velo, b. 1935Maks Kraczkowski, b. 1979Maksim Chmerkovskiy, b. 1980Maks Barišič, b. 1995Maks Čelić, b. 1996Maks Dziov, b. 2001Maks Kaśnikowski, b. 2003

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalПривет, Maks!Hi Maks, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 63 sources across 30 countries.

Official registers attesting Maks
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—3.4K#161
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20253.3K#82
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020434#22,463
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—153#29,333
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022136—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—134#33,256
SI SloveniaSURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register)2024118—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—82#3,493
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—35#10,113
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—34#17,800
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—30—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202026—

Reference works 7

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What are other forms of the name Maks?
In the etymology graph, Max, Maxime and Maksym are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Maksim and Maxim.
How do you pronounce Maks?
A machine transcription gives /məks/ (IPA) for Russian.
What does the name Maks mean, and where does it come from?
max (highest limit) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Maks a male or female name?
Maks is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Maks have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 134 thousand people named Max, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Maks most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Maks is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 637 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Maks?
In Slovenia, the national register counted 3,299 people named Maks in 2025, about 1 in 637 residents.
How common is Maks compared with other names?
In the United States, Maks is the 513th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Maks” — the 513th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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