Maximilian
#590 for boys in 2025, 497 births
- Peak · boys
- 2013 · 676 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 18,940since 1907
Maximilian over time
Rank among boys' names. Maximilian has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #590 | 497 |
| 2024 | #586 | 487 |
| 2023 | #561 | 518 |
| 2022 | #566 | 523 |
| 2021 | #548 | 533 |
| 2020 | #493 | 595 |
| 2019 | #500 | 571 |
| 2018 | #448 | 672 |
| 2017 | #464 | 652 |
| 2016 | #432 | 717 |
| 2015 | #438 | 698 |
| 2014 | #446 | 668 |
| 2013 | #429 | 676 |
| 2012 | #460 | 590 |
| 2011 | #431 | 632 |
| 2010 | #435 | 632 |
| 2009 | #476 | 574 |
| 2008 | #465 | 593 |
| 2007 | #514 | 512 |
| 2006 | #518 | 498 |
| 2005 | #497 | 498 |
| 2004 | #514 | 474 |
| 2003 | #502 | 486 |
| 2002 | #481 | 481 |
| 2001 | #477 | 493 |
| 2000 | #478 | 492 |
| 1999 | #499 | 435 |
| 1998 | #518 | 402 |
| 1997 | #567 | 331 |
| 1996 | #613 | 285 |
| 1995 | #614 | 280 |
| 1994 | #654 | 253 |
| 1993 | #723 | 206 |
| 1992 | #719 | 206 |
| 1991 | #731 | 193 |
| 1990 | #777 | 170 |
| 1989 | #737 | 180 |
| 1988 | #780 | 146 |
| 1987 | #709 | 166 |
| 1986 | #840 | 116 |
| 1985 | #1,007 | 82 |
| 1984 | #1,174 | 60 |
| 1983 | #1,166 | 60 |
| 1982 | #1,514 | 41 |
| 1981 | #1,577 | 38 |
| 1980 | #1,547 | 39 |
| 1979 | #1,788 | 31 |
| 1978 | #1,688 | 32 |
| 1977 | #1,571 | 35 |
| 1976 | #1,646 | 32 |
| 1975 | #1,753 | 28 |
| 1974 | #2,199 | 19 |
| 1973 | #1,736 | 26 |
| 1972 | #2,659 | 13 |
| 1971 | #2,203 | 18 |
| 1970 | #1,699 | 26 |
| 1969 | #1,977 | 18 |
| 1968 | #1,695 | 22 |
| 1967 | #2,139 | 14 |
| 1966 | #2,327 | 12 |
| 1965 | #3,537 | 6 |
| 1964 | #2,854 | 9 |
| 1963 | #3,044 | 8 |
| 1962 | #3,041 | 8 |
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| 1960 | #4,038 | 5 |
| 1959 | #3,988 | 5 |
| 1958 | #3,275 | 7 |
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| 1942 | #3,560 | 5 |
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| 1939 | #3,113 | 6 |
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| 1935 | #3,252 | 6 |
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| 1926 | #3,708 | 6 |
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| 1924 | #3,505 | 7 |
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| 1922 | #3,014 | 9 |
| 1921 | #3,517 | 7 |
| 1920 | #2,765 | 10 |
| 1919 | #3,736 | 6 |
| 1918 | #2,882 | 9 |
| 1917 | #2,423 | 11 |
| 1916 | #2,730 | 9 |
| 1915 | #3,082 | 7 |
| 1914 | #1,868 | 12 |
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| 1907 | #1,345 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Maximilian! It came in at #1,345, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1907–1913, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Maximilian is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Illinois#255 · 1 in 1,211
- Connecticut#291 · 1 in 1,566
- New York#292 · 1 in 1,471
- Nevada#297 · 1 in 1,223
- New Jersey#316 · 1 in 1,661
Best ever in a state: #156 in District of Columbia, 2013.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | #255 | 53 | 1 in 1,211 |
| Connecticut | #291 | 9 | 1 in 1,566 |
| New York | #292 | 68 | 1 in 1,471 |
| Nevada | #297 | 11 | 1 in 1,223 |
| New Jersey | #316 | 25 | 1 in 1,661 |
| Maryland | #338 | 16 | 1 in 1,722 |
| California | #353 | 107 | 1 in 2,091 |
| Massachusetts | #361 | 13 | 1 in 2,264 |
| Arizona | #375 | 20 | 1 in 1,802 |
| Virginia | #381 | 21 | 1 in 1,982 |
| Minnesota | #399 | 14 | 1 in 2,000 |
| Wisconsin | #407 | 13 | 1 in 2,071 |
| Florida | #409 | 43 | 1 in 2,278 |
| Colorado | #439 | 13 | 1 in 2,120 |
| Nebraska | #440 | 5 | 1 in 1,990 |
| Texas | #440 | 74 | 1 in 2,503 |
| Oregon | #456 | 8 | 1 in 2,297 |
| North Carolina | #458 | 20 | 1 in 2,599 |
| Pennsylvania | #470 | 20 | 1 in 2,961 |
| Ohio | #477 | 21 | 1 in 2,825 |
| Michigan | #483 | 17 | 1 in 2,808 |
| Utah | #509 | 8 | 1 in 2,622 |
| South Carolina | #519 | 7 | 1 in 3,029 |
| Missouri | #580 | 9 | 1 in 3,512 |
| Indiana | #584 | 10 | 1 in 3,557 |
| Georgia | #614 | 14 | 1 in 3,841 |
| Washington | #625 | 10 | 1 in 3,704 |
| Louisiana | #809 | 5 | 1 in 4,912 |
| Tennessee | #823 | 6 | 1 in 6,033 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Maximilian
- 4 spots since 2024 (#586 → #590)
- 97 spots since 2020 (#493 → #590)
- 152 spots since 2015 (#438 → #590)
- Biggest jump: 167 spots in 1986 (#1,007 → #840)
- Biggest drop: 71 spots in 1988 (#709 → #780)
- Debuted 1907
- Peaked 2013 at #429 (676 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 40 yrs · run 1986–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,647 boys born in 2016 were named Maximilian (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,437 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
- Its best rank, #429 in 2013, was only 1 in 2,798 (0.04%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 34.4% of all boys named Maximilian (6,508) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 | #1,345 (1907) | #1,345 |
| 1910s | 54 | #1,868 (1914) | #2,787 |
| 1920s | 39 | #2,765 (1920) | #3,302 |
| 1930s | 12 | #3,113 (1939) | #3,183 |
| 1940s | 5 | #3,560 (1942) | #3,560 |
| 1950s | 12 | #3,275 (1958) | #3,632 |
| 1960s | 102 | #1,695 (1968) | #2,739 |
| 1970s | 260 | #1,571 (1977) | #1,894 |
| 1980s | 928 | #709 (1987) | #1,105 |
| 1990s | 2,761 | #499 (1999) | #642 |
| 2000s | 5,101 | #465 (2008) | #492 |
| 2010s | 6,508 | #429 (2013) | #448 |
| 2020s | 3,153 | #493 (2020) | #557 |
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.
Maximilian in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
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1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 2,647 of them was named Maximilian, which outranked 97.0% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).