Maxwell Boy Name

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The name Maxwell is of Scottish origin, and means Marcus' well. The table below indicates the number of times the name Maxwell has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Maxwell**
Use of the Name Maxwell for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
48,467	43,951	42,213	27,699	15,522	5,951	2,872

The table below indicates the number of times the name Maxwell has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Maxwell**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	668	9
1881
1882	913	6
1883	622	10
1884	737	8
1885	743	8
1886	925	6
1887	802	7
1888	886	7
1889	610	11
1890	502	15
1891	817	7
1892	732	10
1893	560	13
1894	835	8
1895	595	13
1896	527	16
1897	419	21
1898	534	16
1899	602	12
1900	506	22
1901	461	18
1902	401	26
1903	542	17
1904	553	17
1905	473	23
1906	405	29
1907	504	22
1908	484	27
1909	479	29
1910	428	41
1911	407	49
1912	365	113
1913	385	121
1914	413	132
1915	405	176
1916	474	147
1917	470	147
1918	487	150
1919	514	134
1920	570	120
1921	603	110
1922	526	140
1923	568	122
1924	588	117
1925	592	113
1926	678	88
1927	622	102
1928	577	115
1929	521	127
1930	624	98
1931	653	84
1932	632	90
1933	747	67
1934	750	67
1935	700	75
1936	799	59
1937	844	53
1938	707	75
1939	733	67
1940	806	60
1941	790	63
1942	810	64
1943	818	65
1944	758	68
1945	859	54
1946	732	80
1947	864	65
1948	879	60
1949	903	59
1950	869	62
1951	871	65
1952	829	72
1953	873	68
1954	817	79
1955	767	90
1956	832	81
1957	932	66
1958	1000	58
1959	837	82
1960
1961
1962
1963	943	64
1964	972	62
1965	922	65
1966	908	64
1967	962	57
1968	874	68
1969	869	78
1970	971	69
1971
1972	924	75
1973	822	94
1974	859	87
1975	831	100
1976	870	93
1977	772	122
1978	793	115
1979	705	148
1980	635	188
1981	595	207
1982	634	188
1983	570	220
1984	488	295
1985	384	466
1986	327	609
1987	230	1,013
1988	217	1,206
1989	205	1,402
1990	188	1,626
1991	187	1,720
1992	170	1,873
1993	181	1,783
1994	181	1,718
1995	178	1,838
1996	177	1,899
1997	148	2,316
1998	135	2,789
1999	106	3,335
2000	113	3,362
2001	124	3,180
2002	129	3,029
2003	132	3,079
2004	136	2,872
Totals:		48,467		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Maxwell as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Maxwell appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 120 times during the last 125 years.

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