Maximo
Maximo was given to 506 boys in 2025, #580 among boys’ names; 9,223 Americans have been recorded with it since 1903 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,580 Americans named Maximo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 5 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maximo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maximo mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Maximo is “a male given name from Spanish.”
Anglicized spelling of Spanish Máximo.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maximo?
#580 among boys’ names, 2025
Maximo rose from #857 in 2015 to #580 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.14 to 0.30 per 1,000.
506 babies in 2025, the peak
Maximo peaked in 2025, when 506 boys were given it, #580 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 485 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 506 | #580 | 0.30 |
| 2024 | 485 | #591 | 0.28 |
| 2023 | 498 | #578 | 0.29 |
| 2022 | 414 | #661 | 0.24 |
| 2021 | 351 | #733 | 0.20 |
| 2020 | 321 | #754 | 0.19 |
| 2019 | 326 | #742 | 0.18 |
| 2018 | 282 | #803 | 0.16 |
| 2017 | 245 | #880 | 0.13 |
| 2016 | 320 | #762 | 0.17 |
Every recorded year (112)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 263 | #857 | 0.14 |
| 2014 | 232 | #922 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 254 | #843 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 223 | #924 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 273 | #804 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 258 | #831 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 287 | #788 | 0.14 |
| 2008 | 287 | #773 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 214 | #930 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 206 | #923 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 193 | #914 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 193 | #897 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 140 | #1,100 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 172 | #934 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 111 | #1,210 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 77 | #1,559 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 71 | #1,565 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 58 | #1,755 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 45 | #2,011 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 51 | #1,805 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 47 | #1,852 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 39 | #2,102 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 59 | #1,545 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 50 | #1,715 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 53 | #1,599 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 47 | #1,715 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 48 | #1,647 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 41 | #1,721 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 39 | #1,721 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 29 | #2,037 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 36 | #1,714 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 26 | #2,078 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 41 | #1,503 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 30 | #1,875 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 36 | #1,650 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 40 | #1,532 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 26 | #2,027 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 33 | #1,682 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 32 | #1,695 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 37 | #1,486 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 36 | #1,493 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 39 | #1,382 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 21 | #2,012 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 30 | #1,589 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 44 | #1,265 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 25 | #1,775 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 22 | #1,791 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 35 | #1,303 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 22 | #1,693 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 19 | #1,792 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 21 | #1,759 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 21 | #1,776 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 20 | #1,817 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 24 | #1,657 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 18 | #1,983 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 22 | #1,752 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 18 | #1,949 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 13 | #2,329 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 12 | #2,445 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 16 | #2,062 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 17 | #1,948 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 27 | #1,486 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 17 | #1,936 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 18 | #1,840 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 12 | #2,327 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 21 | #1,641 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 18 | #1,797 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 25 | #1,480 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 16 | #1,963 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,000 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 17 | #1,672 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 21 | #1,510 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,137 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,111 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 16 | #1,803 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,023 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,278 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,161 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,030 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,486 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,352 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 18 | #1,687 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,628 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,170 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,031 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 16 | #1,975 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 9 | #2,992 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 20 | #1,779 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 17 | #1,959 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 21 | #1,722 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,312 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 14 | #2,292 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 20 | #1,805 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 17 | #2,030 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 16 | #2,103 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,624 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 16 | #2,041 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,377 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,283 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,559 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,133 | 0.01 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,242 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Maximo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maximo has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 112 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maximo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maximo, and how old are they?
8,580 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 9,223 Americans ever recorded as Maximo. The median Maximo alive today is 13 years old; half are between 5 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 10,476 people named Maximo (21 women and girls, 10,455 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,202 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 43 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 232 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 428 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 640 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,770 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,470 |
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 Maximo born?
The states with the most babies named Maximo are Texas, California and Florida, with 58% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 117 | #319 | 2.2× |
| California | 96 | #364 | 1.8× |
| Florida | 57 | #345 | 1.7× |
| Arizona | 22 | #350 | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 21 | #496 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 15 | #668 | 0.3× |
| Utah | 15 | #322 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 14 | #671 | 0.3× |
| New York | 12 | #1,029 | 1.3× |
| Massachusetts | 12 | #429 | 0.4× |
Where Maximo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maximo is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 2.2 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 Maximo 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, Maximo is the most given (89% of them). In 2025 it was given to 506 of their 527 babies (96%), again the 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 Maximo
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 Maximo and names like it
- Compare Maximo and MaximeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMaximo peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maximo since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Maximo: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Maximo.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Maximo alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.