Maxene
Maxene was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,557 among girls’ names; 506 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maxene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maxene?
#11,557 among girls’ names, 2025
Maxene rose from #15,735 in 2015 to #11,557 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.4 to 5.0 per million.
30 babies in 1924, the peak
Maxene peaked in 1924, when 30 girls were given it, #1,552 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,557 | 5.0 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,953 | 3.6 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,531 | 2.9 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,735 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,290 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,321 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,920 | 2.8 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,203 | 4.7 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,536 | 5.8 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,575 | 5.7 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 7 | #3,904 | 5.4 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,708 | 5.7 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,757 | 8.9 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,621 | 9.9 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,379 | 11.4 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,861 | 9.1 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,405 | 11.8 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,688 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,796 | 9.6 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,676 | 10.5 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,874 | 9.6 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,475 | 7.5 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,700 | 10.3 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,800 | 9.8 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,857 | 9.9 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,468 | 12.1 |
| 1927 | 18 | #2,147 | 15.1 |
| 1926 | 22 | #1,863 | 18.6 |
| 1925 | 26 | #1,683 | 21.4 |
| 1924 | 30 | #1,552 | 24.0 |
| 1923 | 29 | #1,546 | 24.0 |
| 1922 | 26 | #1,670 | 21.6 |
| 1921 | 19 | #2,092 | 15.4 |
| 1920 | 26 | #1,650 | 21.7 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,755 | 10.6 |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,776 | 10.4 |
| 1917 | 17 | #2,068 | 15.7 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,329 | 13.4 |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,208 | 14.2 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,475 | 7.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maxene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maxene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maxene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maxene, and how old are they?
An estimated 107 Americans named Maxene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (21% of everyone recorded); the median is 80 years old and half are between 12 and 86. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 341 people named Maxene (260 women and girls, 81 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 146 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 116,582 babies since 1880, Maxene is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 605 babies (1.3%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Maxene
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.
More about Maxene and names like it
- Compare Maxene and MaxineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMaxene peaked in 1924.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maxene since 1910.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Maxene.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Maxene alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with MMost given first.