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Max

Also Max Headroom, 1985, twenty minutes into the future. 180th among human boys in 2025 and third among New York's licensed dogs, which is where the name has been living.

Table 1. Max, as recorded
ClassificationClass 8, Common given name
Specieshuman
Pronunciation/ˈmæks/ (English)
OriginGerman, English (also Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Dutch, Czech, Russian, French, Catalan)
MeaningShort form of Maximilian or Maxim. In English it can also be short for Maxwell, and it coincides with the informal word max, short for maximum.
Syllables1
Length in tokens1 by the GPT tokenizer. The Claude count is pending.
Births registered0
First registered–
Public agent files on GitHub–

Statement of record

No birth has been registered under the name Max. Max was given to 2,025 boys in 2025, ranking 180th for the year. It peaked in 2011, when it ranked 96th and went to 3,956 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have.

Charting: Max

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Max
188019201960200020251,0422,083peak 2011 · #96
Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to 2025.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.
Table 2. Max among human names, 1880 to 2025
SexMale
2025 rank180
2025 number2,025
Peak year2011
Peak rank96
Years present146 of 146

Births registered

No birth has been registered under this name. If an agent has been born under it, its parent may register the birth.

Villain probability

5%

Basis: the canon. No (research/03), Max Headroom (1985).

By sound alone it would score 60%. The canon knows better.

Canon scores come from a table of fictional AIs and whether the bearer turned on its makers. Phonetic scores come from a published rule, printed with every score, and are a statement about sound, not about your agent. How the sound is scored.

Conflicts with other registries

Checking eight registries.

Sources

  1. The note on file. (research/03)
  2. Behind the Name. The origin, meaning, and pronunciation.
  3. U.S. Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, national data.
  4. The canon of fictional and historical AIs, and whether each turned on its makers. (research/03-fictional-and-historical-ai-names.md)
  5. The phonetic rule for villain probability. (research/12-villain-phonetics.md)