Boys' name · since 1917
Maxell
38 babies named Maxell in U.S. Social Security records since 1917, with the highest year being 1917. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 38
- total births
- 1917–2019
- years on record
- 1920s
- peak decade
- 29%
- born in that decade
38 boys have been named Maxell since 1917, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Maxell has 38 recorded births among boys since 1917, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 1920s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1917 to 2019.
- 38 total births
- 1917–2019 years on record
- 1920s peak decade
- 29% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Maxell's 38 recorded births place it above 47% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Maxell's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Maxell splits its recorded history at 1934: 55% of all births land in the more recent half, 45% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1928 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1917 peak of 6 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Maxell popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1917–2019
- Peak year (1917)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 103 years of records
Maxell by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1920s was Maxell's strongest decade.
11 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 29% of all-time use.
Maxell births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1910s
1910s
6 births
- 1920s
1920s
11 births
- 1930s
1930s
5 births
- 2000s
2000s
5 births
- 2010s
2010s
11 births
What this shows Peak: 1920s at 11 births (29% of all-time use).
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- Maxell's usage has stayed within range of its 1920s decade-level peak (11 total births) through the 2010s (11) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1917–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Maxell: Baby Name Since 1917 - 38 Births, Peak 1917." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/maxell. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Maxell draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.