as a First Name
Transferred use of the Scottish surname, in origin a local name from a minor place on the River Tweed, named as ‘the stream (Old English well(a)) of Mack’. The latter is a form of Magnus. Maxwell was the middle name of the newspaper tycoon William Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook (1879–1964), who was born in Canada, and it has been used as a given name among his descendants. It is now also frequently taken as an expansion of Max.
| 1,879th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Max, Maxx, Maximus, Maximilian, Maxo
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 9,926
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 61,571
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- District of Columbia
- has the most people named Maxwell per capita
- 1999
- marked the height of its popularity
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99.99%
0.89%
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2%
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30-54
22%
13-29
13-29
75%
0-12
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