Read out .csv and hand results to a dictionary - python-3.x

Question

I am learning some coding, and I am stuck with an error I can't explain. Basically I want to read out a .csv file with birth statistics from the US to figure out the most popular name in the time recorded.
My code looks like this:
# 0:Id, 1: Name, 2: Year, 3: Gender, 4: State, 5: Count
names = {} # initialise dict names
maximum = 0 # store for maximum
l = []
with open("Filepath", "r") as file:
for line in file:
l = line.strip().split(",")
try:
name = l[1]
if name in names:
names[name] = int(names[name]) + int(l(5))
else:
names[name] = int(l(5))
except:
continue
print(names)
max(names)
def max(values):
for i in values:
if names[i] > maximum:
names[i] = maximum
else:
continue
return(maximum)
print(maximum)
It seems like the dictionary does not take any values at all since the print command does not return anything. Where did I go wrong (incidentally, the filepath is correct, it takes a while to get the result since the .csv is quite big. So my assumption is that I somehow made a mistake writing into the dictionary, but I was staring at the code for a while now and I don't see it!)

Answer 1

A few suggestions to improve your code:
names = {} # initialise dict names
maximum = 0 # store for maximum
with open("Filepath", "r") as file:
for line in file:
l = line.strip().split(",")
names[name] = names.get(name, 0) + l[5]
maximum = [(v,k) for k,v in names]
maximum.sort(reversed=True)
print(maximum[0])
You will want to look into Python dictionaries and learn about get. It helps you accomplish the objective of making your names dictionary in less lines of codes (more Pythonic).
Also, you used def to generate a function but you never called that function. That is why it's not printing.
I propose the shorted code above. Ask if you have questions!

Answer 2

Figured it out.
I think there were a few flow issues: I called a function before defining it... is that an issue or is python okay with that?
Also I think I used max as a name for a variable, but there is a built-in function with the same name, that might cause an issue I guess?! Same with value
This is my final code:
names = {} # initialise dict names
l = []
def maxval(val):
maxname = max(val.items(), key=lambda x : x[1])
return maxname
with open("filepath", "r") as file:
for line in file:
l = line.strip().split(",")
name = l[1]
try:
names[name] = names.get(name, 0) + int(l[5])
except:
continue
#print(str(l))
#print(names)
print(maxval(names))