--- title: Max Zuckerberg: Mark and Priscilla Zuckerberg Pick Rare Name description: Only 14 female babies shared the name in 2014 canonical: https://time.com/4131899/mark-zuckerberg-daughter-max-name/ author: Chris Wilson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-01T22:54:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:27:17.152Z og:title: A Girl Named Max: Mark Zuckerberg's Daughter Joins Rare Company og:description: Only 14 newborn girls were named Max in 2014 og:url: https://time.com/4131899/mark-zuckerberg-daughter-max-name/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfbdfc5463896cb8d/698873520b72e35d786e70d2/mark-zuckerberg.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: mark-zuckerberg og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: A Girl Named Max: Mark Zuckerberg's Daughter Joins Rare Company twitter:description: Only 14 newborn girls were named Max in 2014 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfbdfc5463896cb8d/698873520b72e35d786e70d2/mark-zuckerberg.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # A Girl Named Max? Mark Zuckerberg's Daughter Joins Rare Company  by [Chris Wilson](https://time.com/author/chris-wilson/)  ## Chris Wilson Dec 1, 2015 10:54 PM UTC  Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan and daughter Max. Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan and daughter Max.Facebook  by [Chris Wilson](https://time.com/author/chris-wilson/)  ## Chris Wilson Dec 1, 2015 10:54 PM UTC Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan announced the [birth of their daughter Max](http://time.com/4131761/mark-zuckerberg-priscilla-chan-max/?xid=homepage) Tuesday in conjunction with plans to give the vast majority of their Facebook stock to charity. Since 2000, only about 150 babies born in the United States have been named Max, according to Social Security Administration [data](https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/), including only 14 in 2014\. (Numbers for 2015 likely won’t be made available until next spring.) | **Year** | **Female Maxes** | | -------- | ---------------- | | 2000 | 8 | | 2001 | 9 | | 2002 | 9 | | 2003 | 0 | | 2004 | 13 | | 2005 | 7 | | 2006 | 12 | | 2007 | 8 | | 2008 | 6 | | 2009 | 10 | | 2010 | 8 | | 2011 | 8 | | 2012 | 15 | | 2013 | 19 | | 2014 | 14 | To put that in perspective, there were also 14 girls named Matthew born in 2014\. The variant Maxine is considerably more common, with 202 in 2014\. And since Jessica Simpson named her [daughter Maxwell](http://www.people.com/people/celebritybabies/gallery/0,,20907360%5F30308931,00.html) in 2012, the name has gained a small amount of traction with other parents: There were 26 girls named Maxwell in 2013 and 34 in 2014. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4131899/mark-zuckerberg-daughter-max-name/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4131899/mark-zuckerberg-daughter-max-name/"},"headline":"A Girl Named Max? Mark Zuckerberg's Daughter Joins Rare Company","datePublished":"2015-12-01T22:54:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:27:17.152Z","description":"Only 14 female babies shared the name in 2014","url":"https://time.com/4131899/mark-zuckerberg-daughter-max-name/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Tech"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfbdfc5463896cb8d/698873520b72e35d786e70d2/mark-zuckerberg.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Chris Wilson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/chris-wilson/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfbdfc5463896cb8d/698873520b72e35d786e70d2/mark-zuckerberg.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"mark-zuckerberg","caption":"Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan and daughter Max.","creditText":"Facebook","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4131899/mark-zuckerberg-daughter-max-name/","name":"A Girl Named Max? Mark Zuckerberg's Daughter Joins Rare Company"}}]}] ```