Max
1.14k
Babies in 2024
-56%
10-year change
2012
Peak · 3.22k
-10%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Max
Max has been falling out of fashion as a UK boy's name. In 2024, 1,140 boys were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 56% on a decade earlier.
Max reached its peak in 2012, when 3,220 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #18 for UK boys that year. That's roughly 35% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 59,807 boys have been officially registered with the name Max in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 20,389 boys were registered with the name, starting from 2,602 in 2014 and ending at 1,140 in 2024.