Fun Facts About the Name Maxten
- 143 babies named Maxten: U.S. records list 143 babies given the name Maxten from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Maxten Mean?
Maxten is a modern respelling of Maxton, a Scottish place name and surname, and it carries the same sense: "Maccus's farmstead." The place name Maxton, in Roxburghshire in the Scottish Borders, is formed from a personal name, Maccus, plus the Old English element tūn, meaning "enclosure," "farmstead," or "settlement." Medieval spellings such as Maccuston preserve both parts of the compound.
The personal name Maccus is the uncertain element. It is not an Old English name in form; it appears in the Norse-Gaelic world, where a tenth-century ruler of the Isles was named Maccus mac Arailt, and it is generally taken to be a Latinized Gaelic or Norse-Gaelic name whose exact origin cannot be pinned down.
Maxten is not related to Max, which comes from the Latin Maximus, "greatest." The two names share a sound and the letter x but not an origin. The ending -en in Maxten matches the pattern of many modern English given names rather than any older historical form.
Maxten Name History & Origins
Maxton is a place in Roxburghshire, in the Scottish Borders near St Boswells and the Eildon Hills, close to the River Tweed. Its medieval spellings combine a personal name with tūn, and it was the site of a parish church in the Middle Ages. As a surname, Maxton belongs to that Borders district and later appears elsewhere in Scotland, in England, and in Ulster, following the usual movement of Scottish surnames.
Using Maxton as a first name is a modern practice, part of the broad fashion for turning surnames into given names. Maxten is a respelling of that given name rather than a form with its own separate development: it keeps the sound of Maxton while shifting the ending to -en, the ending of many English given names. Its history therefore runs back only through the Scottish surname to the Borders place name, and it has no independent body of older forms, religious associations, or foreign-language equivalents attached to the spelling itself.
How Popular is the Name Maxten?
Maxten 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 2013. Its best rank was #6,131 in 2013.
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 | #8,680 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2023 | #13,465 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2021 | #10,402 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2020 | #9,249 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2019 | #8,638 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2018 | #7,443 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2017 | #6,544 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2016 | #7,445 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2015 | #7,377 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2014 | #10,351 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2013 | #6,131 | 14 | 0.0007% |
| 2012 | #8,628 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2011 | #7,327 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2010 | #11,698 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2009 | #10,606 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2008 | #13,896 | 5 | 0.0002% |
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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