Maxence
Maxence was given to 10 boys in 2025, #8,023 among boys’ names; 77 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maxence by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maxence mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Maxence is “a male given name”
Inherited from Middle French Maxence, from Latin Maxentius.
/mak.sɑ̃s/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maxence?
#8,023 among boys’ names, 2025
Maxence entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #8,023 in 2025.
10 babies in 2025, the peak
Maxence peaked in 2025, when 10 boys were given it, #8,023 among boys’ names. SSA did not list it in 2024.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #8,023 | 5.9 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,400 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,792 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,652 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 7 | #10,215 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 5 | #13,509 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,329 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 5 | #13,790 | 2.5 |
| 2008 | 5 | #13,885 | 2.5 |
| 2006 | 8 | #9,270 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (12)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 5 | #12,557 | 2.5 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,699 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Maxence a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maxence has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 12 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maxence: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maxence, and how old are they?
An estimated 76 Americans named Maxence and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Maxence
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.