Maximillian
Maximillian was given to 86 boys in 2025, #1,845 among boys’ names; 5,968 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,750 Americans named Maximillian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 16 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maximillian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maximillian mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Maximillian is “a male given name from Latin, variant of Maximilian, a modern spelling of Maximilian, taken from films and video game characters.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maximillian?
#1,845 among boys’ names, 2025
Maximillian fell from #1,596 in 2015 to #1,845 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 52.7 to 50.3 per million.
250 babies in 1999, the peak
Maximillian peaked in 1999, when 250 boys were given it, #673 among boys’ names. The 86 births of 2025 are 34% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 86 | #1,845 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 68 | #2,164 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 63 | #2,262 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 52 | #2,608 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 71 | #2,072 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 61 | #2,253 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 75 | #1,968 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 110 | #1,545 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 85 | #1,799 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 91 | #1,716 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 101 | #1,596 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 84 | #1,790 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 120 | #1,404 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 139 | #1,270 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 133 | #1,292 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 191 | #1,018 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 183 | #1,044 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 197 | #993 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 176 | #1,063 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 159 | #1,104 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 191 | #924 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 200 | #874 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 216 | #806 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 234 | #743 | 0.12 |
| 2001 | 209 | #803 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 242 | #719 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 250 | #673 | 0.13 |
| 1998 | 227 | #725 | 0.12 |
| 1997 | 167 | #848 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 163 | #852 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 140 | #935 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 149 | #888 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 159 | #835 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 115 | #1,020 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 99 | #1,096 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 107 | #1,021 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 87 | #1,138 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 83 | #1,093 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 75 | #1,109 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 55 | #1,331 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 33 | #1,822 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 29 | #1,920 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 32 | #1,776 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 31 | #1,838 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 36 | #1,649 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 39 | #1,561 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 29 | #1,893 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 23 | #2,110 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 21 | #2,246 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 25 | #1,969 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 21 | #2,179 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 18 | #2,328 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 27 | #1,725 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 16 | #2,390 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 26 | #1,764 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 22 | #1,914 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 17 | #2,101 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 13 | #2,408 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 10 | #2,713 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,786 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,445 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,494 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,986 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,751 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,354 | under 0.01 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,348 | under 0.01 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,034 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,648 | under 0.01 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,021 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,442 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,558 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,584 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Maximillian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maximillian has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maximillian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maximillian, and how old are they?
5,750 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 5,968 Americans ever recorded as Maximillian. The median Maximillian alive today is 24 years old; half are between 16 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 4,552 people named Maximillian (16 women and girls, 4,536 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,420 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 17 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 286 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,330 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,060 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,060 |
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 Maximillian born?
The states with the most babies named Maximillian are California, Texas and Florida, with 83% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 14 | #1,344 | 1.5× |
| Texas | 9 | #1,855 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,578 | 0.8× |
| New York | 6 | #1,680 | 1.6× |
Where Maximillian is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maximillian is most over-represented in New York: since 1914 it was given 1.6 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 Maximillian 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 26,922 babies since 1880, Maximillian is the second most given (22% of them). In 2025 it was given to 86 of their 613 babies (14%), again the second most given.
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maximilian | 18,940 | 497 | 2016 |
| Maximillian | 5,968 | 86 | 1999 |
| Maximillion | 675 | 13 | 1999 |
| Maxamillion | 461 | 9 | 2014 |
| Maximilien | 371 | 8 | 1998 |
| Maxmillian | 198 | under 5 | 2000 |
| Maxamillian | 175 | under 5 | 2002 |
| Maxmilian | 134 | under 5 | 2005 |
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 Maximillian
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 Maximillian and names like it
- Compare Maximillian and MaximilianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMaximillian peaked in 1999.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maximillian since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Maximillian.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Maximillian alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.