Maxten
Boy · MAKS-tun · Scottish
Maxten is a boys' name of Scottish origin, meaning “Maccus's settlement”. In 2025 it ranked 8,239th for boys in the US (9 babies).
What does Maxten mean?
Scottish: spelling of Maxton; Scottish place name and surname
“Maccus's settlement”
From Maxton, a village in the Scottish Borders named after a 12th-century landholder called Maccus.
- Say it
- MAKS-tun
Meaning borrowed from Maxton.
Is Maxten a girl's or a boy's name?
Maxten is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Maxten in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,239among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 9about 1 in 190,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 9 boys in the US were named Maxten, making it the 8,239th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,734th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 14 boys. It first appears in the records in 2008.
2025 had more boys named Maxten than any year since 2019.
Half of all the boys named Maxten in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 193 boys in the US were given Maxten or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,015, up from #8,239 for this spelling alone.
Maxten in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,239 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 5 | #12,232 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 7 | #9,709 |
| 2020 | 8 | #8,734 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,209 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,132 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,334 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,152 |
| 2015 | 11 | #7,061 |
| 2014 | 7 | #9,636 |
| 2013 | 14 | #5,919 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,152 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,002 |
| 2010 | 6 | #10,759 |
| 2009 | 7 | #9,859 |
| 2008 | 5 | #12,546 |
Nicknames for Maxten
- Max 1,240 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Maxten
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kaizen Madden Chozen Jensen Bowen Jaxton Zayden Jettson Evren Hudson Cohen Colson
Other spellings of Maxten
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