Maxima

Peak · girls
1931 · 6 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
186
since 1919

Maxima over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Maxima has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #3,848, 1931girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025#8,36212
2024#7,59414
2023#8,98911
2022#10,3839
2021#9,56210
2020#8,40612
2019#8,59712
2018#7,76214
2017#10,6899
2016#8,39313
2015#8,44713
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First appearance
1919

The first year at least five girls were named Maxima! It came in at #4,814, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1919–1921, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Maxima is popular in 2025

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

See more about Maxima
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 768 spots since 2024 (#7,594 → #8,362)
  • 44 spots since 2020 (#8,406 → #8,362)
  • 85 spots since 2015 (#8,447 → #8,362)
Rise & fade · girls
12 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1919
  • Peaked 1931 at #3,848 (6 births)
  • Births halved by 1932, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 115,728
  • Highest: 1 in 115,728 girls born in 2024 were named Maxima (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 133,939 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #3,848 in 1931, was only 1 in 177,455 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 42.5% of all girls named Maxima (79) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s5#4,814 (1919)#4,814
1920s17#4,434 (1924)#4,577
1930s6#3,848 (1931)#3,848
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2000s11#15,152 (2006)#16,394
2010s79#7,762 (2018)#9,438
2020s68#7,594 (2024)#8,883

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

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