Maximilian
Maximilian was given to 497 boys in 2025, #590 among boys’ names; 18,940 Americans have been recorded with it since 1907 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 18,500 Americans named Maximilian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 9 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maximilian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maximilian mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Maximilian is “a male given name from Latin, rare in English.”
From German Maximilian, ultimately of Latin origin.
[ˈmæksɪmɪljən]
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maximilian?
#590 among boys’ names, 2025
Maximilian fell from #438 in 2015 to #590 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.36 to 0.29 per 1,000.
717 babies in 2016, the peak
Maximilian peaked in 2016, when 717 boys were given it, #433 among boys’ names. The 497 births of 2025 are 69% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 497 | #590 | 0.29 |
| 2024 | 487 | #587 | 0.28 |
| 2023 | 518 | #561 | 0.30 |
| 2022 | 523 | #567 | 0.30 |
| 2021 | 533 | #548 | 0.30 |
| 2020 | 595 | #493 | 0.34 |
| 2019 | 571 | #502 | 0.32 |
| 2018 | 672 | #448 | 0.37 |
| 2017 | 652 | #464 | 0.35 |
| 2016 | 717 | #433 | 0.38 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 698 | #438 | 0.36 |
| 2014 | 668 | #446 | 0.35 |
| 2013 | 676 | #429 | 0.36 |
| 2012 | 590 | #460 | 0.31 |
| 2011 | 632 | #432 | 0.33 |
| 2010 | 632 | #435 | 0.33 |
| 2009 | 574 | #476 | 0.29 |
| 2008 | 593 | #465 | 0.29 |
| 2007 | 512 | #514 | 0.25 |
| 2006 | 498 | #519 | 0.24 |
| 2005 | 498 | #497 | 0.25 |
| 2004 | 474 | #514 | 0.24 |
| 2003 | 486 | #503 | 0.25 |
| 2002 | 481 | #482 | 0.25 |
| 2001 | 493 | #478 | 0.25 |
| 2000 | 492 | #478 | 0.25 |
| 1999 | 435 | #499 | 0.23 |
| 1998 | 402 | #519 | 0.21 |
| 1997 | 331 | #567 | 0.18 |
| 1996 | 285 | #613 | 0.15 |
| 1995 | 280 | #613 | 0.15 |
| 1994 | 253 | #653 | 0.13 |
| 1993 | 206 | #722 | 0.11 |
| 1992 | 206 | #717 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 193 | #730 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 170 | #775 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 180 | #736 | 0.09 |
| 1988 | 146 | #781 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 166 | #710 | 0.09 |
| 1986 | 116 | #843 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 82 | #1,009 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 60 | #1,183 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 60 | #1,175 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 41 | #1,530 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 38 | #1,589 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 39 | #1,560 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 31 | #1,817 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 32 | #1,709 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 35 | #1,596 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 32 | #1,664 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 28 | #1,772 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 19 | #2,246 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 26 | #1,760 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 13 | #2,762 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 18 | #2,246 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 26 | #1,732 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 18 | #2,023 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 22 | #1,715 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 14 | #2,219 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 12 | #2,410 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,792 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,985 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,234 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,213 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,404 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,364 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,470 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,888 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,357 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,515 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,033 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,720 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,158 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 7 | #3,753 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 10 | #2,896 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,019 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,020 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,514 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 9 | #2,857 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,274 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 12 | #1,931 | 0.02 |
| 1907 | 5 | #1,476 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Maximilian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maximilian has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 82 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maximilian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maximilian, and how old are they?
18,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 18,940 Americans ever recorded as Maximilian. The median Maximilian alive today is 16 years old; half are between 9 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 13,129 people named Maximilian (28 women and girls, 13,101 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 15,594 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 32 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 332 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,370 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 8,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,750 |
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 Maximilian born?
The states with the most babies named Maximilian are California, New York and Texas, with 36% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 74 | #436 | 1.4× |
| New York | 42 | #415 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 40 | #705 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 33 | #331 | 1.7× |
| Florida | 28 | #613 | 1.0× |
| Washington | 21 | #359 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 19 | #557 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #597 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 16 | #486 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 13 | #564 | 1.4× |
Where Maximilian is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maximilian is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1910 it was given 1.7 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 Maximilian 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 26,544 babies since 1880, Maximilian is the most given (71% of them). In 2025 it was given to 497 of their 604 babies (82%), again the most given.
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maximilian | 18,940 | 497 | 2016 |
| Maximillian | 5,968 | 86 | 1999 |
| Maximillion | 675 | 13 | 1999 |
| Maximilien | 371 | 8 | 1998 |
| Maxmillian | 198 | under 5 | 2000 |
| Maxamillian | 175 | under 5 | 2002 |
| Maxmilian | 134 | under 5 | 2005 |
| Maxamilian | 83 | under 5 | 2000 |
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 Maximilian
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 Maximilian and names like it
- Compare Maximilian and MaximillianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMaximilian peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maximilian since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Maximilian: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Maximilian.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Maximilian alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.