Fun Facts About the Name Maksym
- 540 babies named Maksym: U.S. records list 540 babies given the name Maksym from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Maksym Mean?
Maksym is a Ukrainian and Polish form of the Latin name Maximus, meaning "greatest" or "largest." Maximus is the superlative of the Latin adjective magnus, "great," and it was used in ancient Rome as a cognomen, a family nickname that could be inherited. The Ukrainian form is written Максим; the English transliteration Maksym uses y for the Ukrainian letter и. The Polish form Maksym comes from the same Latin source. Maksym is a separate name from Maximilian, though both contain the Latin root maximus.
Maksym Name History & Origins
The Latin Maximus was a common Roman cognomen and was also used as a given name. Early Christians adopted it; among the saints who bore it are Maximus of Turin, a bishop in the late fourth and early fifth centuries, and Maximus the Confessor, a seventh-century Byzantine monk and theologian. Through Greek Christian usage, the name passed into the Slavic world after the conversion of the East Slavs. The Greek form Maximos was taken into Church Slavonic as Максимъ (Maksimŭ), which in turn developed into the modern Ukrainian Максим (Maksym), Russian Максим (Maksim), and Belarusian Максім (Maksim). In Ukrainian, the name has been borne by historical figures such as Maksym Zalizniak, an eighteenth-century Cossack leader, and Maksym Rylsky, a twentieth-century poet. The spelling Maksym is the standard English transliteration of the Ukrainian form. Polish also uses Maksym, a form derived from the same Latin name, though the longer Maksymilian is more common in Poland.
How Popular is the Name Maksym?
Maksym has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2014. Its best rank was #2,964 in 2014.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #3,627 | 31 | 0.0018% |
| 2024 | #5,559 | 17 | 0.0010% |
| 2023 | #3,391 | 35 | 0.0020% |
| 2022 | #4,248 | 25 | 0.0014% |
| 2021 | #5,691 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 2020 | #4,964 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 2019 | #5,272 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 2018 | #4,436 | 23 | 0.0013% |
| 2017 | #4,413 | 23 | 0.0012% |
| 2016 | #3,573 | 31 | 0.0016% |
| 2015 | #3,646 | 30 | 0.0016% |
| 2014 | #2,964 | 39 | 0.0020% |
| 2013 | #6,118 | 14 | 0.0007% |
| 2012 | #4,336 | 23 | 0.0012% |
| 2011 | #3,342 | 33 | 0.0017% |
| 2010 | #3,284 | 34 | 0.0018% |
| 2009 | #4,123 | 25 | 0.0013% |
| 2008 | #3,396 | 33 | 0.0016% |
| 2007 | #4,920 | 19 | 0.0009% |
| 2006 | #6,742 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2005 | #5,191 | 16 | 0.0008% |
| 2004 | #7,341 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2003 | #10,389 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2001 | #8,031 | 8 | 0.0004% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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