Maximilien
Maximilien was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,416 among boys’ names; 371 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maximilien by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maximilien mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Maximilien is “a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Maximilian”
From Latin Maximilianus.
/mak.si.mi.ljɛ̃/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maximilien?
#9,416 among boys’ names, 2025
Maximilien fell from #6,191 in 2015 to #9,416 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.3 to 4.7 per million.
16 babies in 1998, the peak
Maximilien peaked in 1998, when 16 boys were given it, #4,324 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,416 | 4.7 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,402 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 12 | #7,090 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,218 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,496 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,996 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,218 | 7.7 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,590 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 15 | #5,950 | 7.9 |
| 2015 | 14 | #6,191 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 13 | #6,508 | 6.8 |
| 2013 | 13 | #6,488 | 6.9 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,885 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 14 | #6,137 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,402 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,753 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,673 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,929 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,499 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,471 | 7.5 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,558 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,622 | 4.6 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,371 | 5.7 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,768 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,779 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,334 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,324 | 8.4 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,824 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,616 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,501 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,764 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,313 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,145 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,779 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 5 | #9,023 | 2.4 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,723 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Maximilien a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maximilien has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maximilien: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maximilien, and how old are they?
An estimated 365 Americans named Maximilien and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 10 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 336 people named Maximilien (1 woman or girl, 335 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 319 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
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
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Maximilien
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.