Maxime — #4079 US boys' name
1,077 babies named Maxime in U.S. Social Security records since 1920, with the highest year being 2001. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 71% of names given to boys today.
31% of everyone ever named Maxime was born in this single decade.
40 babies were named Maxime in 2001 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Maxime
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,077 babies named Maxime between 1920 and 2024, spanning 105 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Maxime currently holds the #4079 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 40 babies received it in a single year. Maxime is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 55 additional births since 1988.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Maxime performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 331 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Maxime shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 147 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Maxime in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Maxime in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,077 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Maxime at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Maxime popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1920
- Peak year (2001)
- 40
- Annual births at peak — across 105 years of records
Currently ranks #4079 among boys.
1,077 total births across 105 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2001 with 40 births in a single year.
Maxime popularity over time — girls
55 total births recorded since 1988 (Maxime as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Maxime accounts for 5% of total recorded use across both genders.
Maxime by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 331 births that decade — 31% of Maxime's all-time total
Maxime decade highlights
- Peak decade 331 births
- Runner-up 318 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Maxime's strongest decade
331 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 31% of all-time use.
Maxime by state
Where Maxime concentrates geographically — total births since 1920
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 147 | 13.6% |
| #2 | New York | | 128 | 11.9% |
| #3 | Florida | | 34 | 3.2% |
| #4 | Massachusetts | | 6 | 0.6% |
| #5 | Texas | | 5 | 0.5% |
147 of 1,077 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 5 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 13.6% of nationwide
- New York 11.9% of nationwide
- Florida 3.2% of nationwide
- Massachusetts 0.6% of nationwide
- Texas 0.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 5 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 13.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1920–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.