Maximos is a distinctive choice, ranked #1307 in 2025. Your child is likely to be the only Maximos in their class.
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UK Rank 2025
#1307
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About the Name Maximos
Maximos is climbing rapidly up the charts, having climbed 206 places in just five years. Its best recorded rank was #1218 in 2021 โ and current momentum suggests it could challenge that mark again. The name has been recorded in UK data since 2009.
Maximos is uncommon in the UK, so your child is very likely to be the only Maximos in their class.
โญ Famous People Named Maximos
Maximos Salloum โ Maximos Salloum was Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Akka in Israel from 1975 to 1997.
Maximos Sedfaoui โ Maximos Sedfaoui was the locum tenens and Apostolic Administrator (ู ุฏุจูุฑ ุฑุณููู) of the Coptic Catholic Church after the resignation of Patriarch Kyrillos Makarios in 1908.
Maximos V Hakim โ Maximos V Hakim was a Syrian Catholic prelate who served as Melkite Catholic Patriarch of Antioch from 1967 to 2000.
Biographical summaries are shortened from Wikipedia and are used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; those summaries remain available under that same licence.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the name Maximos
Unlikely. With around 21 UK babies named Maximos per year, your child will almost certainly be the only Maximos in their class, and possibly the only one in the whole school.
Maximos is rising: up 416 places since 2020, to #1,307 in 2025. Its best recorded position was #1,218 in 2021.
Maximos is a distinctive choice sitting outside the mainstream UK top names. Parents choosing less common names often find their children appreciate the individuality as they grow up, rarely needing to add an initial to distinguish themselves.
Maximos does not appear in the US top 1,000 baby names, making it a distinctively British choice โ your child is unlikely to encounter American Maximoss in the wild.
21
UK babies named Maximos (2025)
< 1
Expected classmates with this name (class of 28)
~0.0
In a school of 600
↑ 416 places
Rank change (last 5 years)
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In a typical UK class of 28, highlighted children share the name Maximos
Almost certainly the only Maximos in the class
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UK Popularity (2009–2025)
Rank and birth count · ONS official data
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Maximos Sedfaoui was the locum tenens and Apostolic Administrator (ู ุฏุจูุฑ ุฑุณููู) of the Coptic Catholic Church after the resignation of Patriarch Kyrillos Makarios in 1908.
Maximus or Maximos (Russian: ะะฐะบัะธะผ, romanized: Maksim; Ukrainian: ะะฐะบัะธะผ, romanized: Maksym; died 6 December 1305) was a metropolitan bishop of the Metropolis of Kiev and all Rus' in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.