Maximilian

#590 for boys in 2025, 497 births

Peak · boys
2013 · 676 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
18,940
since 1907

Maximilian over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Maximilian has never cracked the top 400 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202011peak #429, 2013boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#590497
2024#586487
2023#561518
2022#566523
2021#548533
2020#493595
2019#500571
2018#448672
2017#464652
2016#432717
2015#438698
2014#446668
2013#429676
2012#460590
2011#431632
2010#435632
2009#476574
2008#465593
2007#514512
2006#518498
2005#497498
2004#514474
2003#502486
2002#481481
2001#477493
2000#478492
1999#499435
1998#518402
1997#567331
1996#613285
1995#614280
1994#654253
1993#723206
1992#719206
1991#731193
1990#777170
1989#737180
1988#780146
1987#709166
1986#840116
1985#1,00782
1984#1,17460
1983#1,16660
1982#1,51441
1981#1,57738
1980#1,54739
1979#1,78831
1978#1,68832
1977#1,57135
1976#1,64632
1975#1,75328
1974#2,19919
1973#1,73626
1972#2,65913
1971#2,20318
1970#1,69926
1969#1,97718
1968#1,69522
1967#2,13914
1966#2,32712
1965#3,5376
1964#2,8549
1963#3,0448
1962#3,0418
1961
1960#4,0385
1959#3,9885
1958#3,2757
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1942#3,5605
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1939#3,1136
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1935#3,2526
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1926#3,7086
1925
1924#3,5057
1923
1922#3,0149
1921#3,5177
1920#2,76510
1919#3,7366
1918#2,8829
1917#2,42311
1916#2,7309
1915#3,0827
1914#1,86812
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1907#1,3455
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First appearance
1907

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.

See more about Maximilian
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 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)
Rise & fade · boys
106 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1907
  • Peaked 2013 at #429 (676 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 40 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 40 yrs · run 1986–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 2,647
  • 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
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 34.4% of all boys named Maximilian (6,508) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1900s5#1,345 (1907)#1,345
1910s54#1,868 (1914)#2,787
1920s39#2,765 (1920)#3,302
1930s12#3,113 (1939)#3,183
1940s5#3,560 (1942)#3,560
1950s12#3,275 (1958)#3,632
1960s102#1,695 (1968)#2,739
1970s260#1,571 (1977)#1,894
1980s928#709 (1987)#1,105
1990s2,761#499 (1999)#642
2000s5,101#465 (2008)#492
2010s6,508#429 (2013)#448
2020s3,153#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 2011

boys
#431
632 births · 1 in 3,005 boys

Top boys' names in 2011

  1. #1Jacob20,403
  2. #2Mason19,530
  3. #3William17,362
  4. #4Jayden17,019
  5. #5Noah16,883
  6. #6Michael16,823
  7. #7Ethan16,702
  8. #8Alexander15,717
  9. #9Aiden15,520
  10. #10Daniel15,307
  11. #431Maximilian632
More about 2011

boys

1,899,252 boys got a published name in 2011; 1 in 3,005 of them was named Maximilian, which outranked 97.0% of the 14,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Maximilian
  1. #428Brayan638
  2. #429Mohamed635
  3. #429Yahir635
  4. #431Maximilian632
  5. #431Arturo632
  6. #431Moises632
  7. #434Knox630
  8. #435Davis628
  9. #436Barrett626

Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2010
Risers
  1. 869Flynn#1,806#937
  2. 601Raylan#1,299#698
  3. 415Brantley#735#320
  4. 405Bowen#1,127#722
  5. 328Crosby#1,068#740
Fallers
  1. 336Jencarlos#928#1,264
  2. 308Keshawn#997#1,305
  3. 284Octavio#928#1,212
  4. 268Talan#976#1,244
  5. 242Antony#956#1,198

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2011