Maximilien — boys' name
363 babies named Maximilien in U.S. Social Security records since 1987, with the highest year being 1998. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
35% of everyone ever named Maximilien was born in this single decade.
16 babies were named Maximilien in 1998 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Maximilien
The Social Security Administration has registered 363 babies named Maximilien between 1987 and 2023, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Maximilien currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 16 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Maximilien performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 128 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Maximilien shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 35 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Maximilien in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Maximilien 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 363 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.
Maximilien at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Maximilien popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1987
- Peak year (1998)
- 16
- Annual births at peak — across 37 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
363 total births across 37 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1998 with 16 births in a single year.
Maximilien by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 128 births that decade — 35% of Maximilien's all-time total
Maximilien decade highlights
- Peak decade 128 births
- Runner-up 108 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Maximilien's strongest decade
128 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 35% of all-time use.
Maximilien by state
Where Maximilien concentrates geographically — total births since 1987
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 35 | 9.6% |
35 of 363 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 9.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 9.6% 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, 1987–2023 (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.