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Baby name
Max
Boy
Origin of the name
Max is the short form of names such as Maxwell or Maximilian, from the Latin Maximus, “the greatest.”
Classic name
167,458births since 1880
2000sgeneration
No. 104rank at its peak, in 2009
Where babies named Max are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Max is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Max is most common in Utah (3 times), Idaho (2.3) and Kansas (2.1), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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