Where the spelling 맥스 comes from
NIKL’s list of loanword spellings (외래어 표기 용례) gives 맥스 for Max.
People in the list with this given name:
- 홀러웨이, (제롬)맥스 (켈리이) — Holloway, (Jerome-)Max (Kelii)
- 셔저, 맥스 — Scherzer, Max
- 레더먼, 리언 (맥스) — Leon (Max) Lederman
…and 1 more in the list.
Why it is spelled this way
- Matches the spelling in the National Institute of Korean Language loanword usage list.
What Max means
“greatest”
Recorded in Wiktionary for Maximilian; Max is a short form of it.
From Latin Maximus
Source: Wiktionary — Maximilian · CC BY-SA 4.0
Max by the numbers
- US Social Security birth records, 2000–2025: No. 245, 75,842 babies (0.9% girls, 99.1% boys).
- NIKL usage list — people with the given name 맥스: 4.
Korean names for Max
These are the converter’s results for Max as a boy’s name — real Korean given names from the Supreme Court’s birth statistics (2008–2025).
Sounds like mine
Closest in sound among real Korean names.
김민수Kim MinsuBoy’s name · 59% sound match
김민승Kim MinseungBoy’s name · 58% sound match
김민성Kim MinseongBoy’s name · 51% sound match
No surname given, so we picked 김, one of the three most common Korean surnames.
Sources: US Social Security Administration baby names · NIKL loanword usage list · Loanword Orthography (외래어 표기법) · Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Supreme Court of Korea birth statistics