Maxime
Maxime was given to 21 boys in 2025, #4,809 among boys’ names; 1,153 Americans have been recorded with it since 1920 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,120 Americans named Maxime and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 10 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maxime by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maxime mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Maxime is “a male given name from Latin Maximus”
/mak.sim/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maxime?
#4,809 among boys’ names, 2025
Maxime fell from #3,061 in 2015 to #4,809 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 19.8 to 12.3 per million.
47 babies in 2001, the peak
Maxime peaked in 2001, when 47 babies were given it (40 boys, #2,458 among boys’ names). The 21 births of 2025 are 45% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #4,809 | 12.3 |
| 2024 | 26 | #4,151 | 15.1 |
| 2023 | 30 | #3,766 | 17.5 |
| 2022 | 22 | #4,641 | 12.6 |
| 2021 | 27 | #3,965 | 15.4 |
| 2020 | 26 | #3,984 | 15.1 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,129 | 21.2 |
| 2018 | 27 | #3,951 | 14.9 |
| 2017 | 37 | #3,169 | 20.0 |
| 2016 | 31 | #3,577 | 16.3 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,061 | 19.8 |
| 2014 | 35 | #3,193 | 18.2 |
| 2013 | 28 | #3,718 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 37 | #3,091 | 19.5 |
| 2011 | 34 | #3,283 | 17.9 |
| 2010 | 26 | #3,958 | 13.6 |
| 2009 | 37 | #3,146 | 18.7 |
| 2008 | 33 | #3,398 | 16.2 |
| 2007 | 24 | #4,203 | 11.6 |
| 2006 | 31 | #3,424 | 15.1 |
| 2005 | 28 | #3,496 | 14.0 |
| 2004 | 28 | #3,419 | 14.1 |
| 2003 | 30 | #3,160 | 15.2 |
| 2002 | 38 | #2,580 | 19.6 |
| 2001 | 40 | #2,458 | 20.6 |
| 2000 | 29 | #3,040 | 14.8 |
| 1999 | 34 | #2,590 | 17.7 |
| 1998 | 20 | #3,659 | 10.5 |
| 1997 | 19 | #3,679 | 10.1 |
| 1996 | 12 | #5,076 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 20 | #3,390 | 10.5 |
| 1994 | 16 | #4,025 | 8.3 |
| 1993 | 17 | #3,756 | 8.7 |
| 1992 | 20 | #3,292 | 10.0 |
| 1991 | 14 | #4,149 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 13 | #4,319 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,939 | 7.0 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,649 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 16 | #3,153 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,350 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,208 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,977 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,965 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,458 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,904 | 2.8 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,589 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,266 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,172 | 5.1 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,749 | 4.5 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,721 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Maxime a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,153 Americans recorded as Maxime, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 21 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Maxime: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maxime, and how old are they?
1,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,153 Americans ever recorded as Maxime. The median Maxime alive today is 18 years old; half are between 10 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 2,046 people named Maxime (242 women and girls, 1,804 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 982 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 25 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 195 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 513 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 388 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Maxime born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | #2,372 | 1.0× |
| New York | 6 | #1,679 | 1.8× |
Where Maxime is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maxime is most over-represented in New York: since 1920 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Maxime with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 10,376 babies since 1880, Maxime is the second most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 527 babies (4.0%), 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 Maxime
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 Maxime and names like it
- Compare Maxime and MaximoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMaxime peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maxime since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Maxime: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Maxime.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Maxime alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.