Maxfield

Peak · boys
1989 · 32 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
874
since 1927

Maxfield over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Maxfield has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank197019801990200020102020peak #2,154, 1989boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it. Not on the chart: 5 boys in 1927, 5 boys in 1931 (see the data table).

Show data table
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rankbirths
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2024#12,3495
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2021#8,8258
2020#12,0225
2019#5,81315
2018#8,1549
2017#8,8408
2016#7,60510
2015#7,49110
2014#4,53821
2013#7,53710
2012#3,62529
2011#4,35622
2010#4,84819
2009#5,33417
2008#6,07014
2007#5,43416
2006#3,68627
2005#3,94123
2004#3,15831
2003#3,52825
2002#2,47040
2001#2,93131
2000#2,62135
1999#2,51035
1998#2,59932
1997#2,68029
1996#2,18338
1995#2,55629
1994#2,95124
1993#2,50929
1992#2,53228
1991#2,29531
1990#2,43228
1989#2,15432
1988#2,30526
1987#2,83818
1986#4,13010
1985#2,71018
1984#3,92510
1983#6,2385
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First appearance
1927

The first year at least five boys were named Maxfield! It came in at #4,210, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1927–1980, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Maxfield is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more boys named Maxfield in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Maxfield
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
Rise & fade · boys
62 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1927
  • Peaked 1989 at #2,154 (32 births)
  • Births halved by 2007, 18 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 48,538
  • Highest: 1 in 48,538 boys born in 2002 were named Maxfield (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 344,578 boys born in 2024 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,154 in 1989, was only 1 in 62,529 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 34.7% of all boys named Maxfield (303) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1920s5#4,210 (1927)#4,210
1930s5#3,763 (1931)#3,763
1940s0——
1950s0——
1960s0——
1970s5#6,056 (1979)#6,056
1980s126#2,154 (1989)#3,658
1990s303#2,183 (1996)#2,525
2000s259#2,470 (2002)#3,917
2010s153#3,625 (2012)#6,281
2020s18#8,825 (2021)#11,065

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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