Maxel
#11,519 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Maxel has been given to 28 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #11,519 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1931, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Maxel, 2025
1 in 553,000
Maxel over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Maxel?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #11,519
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Maxel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maxel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Maxels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Maxel was born before 2015 — so the typical Maxel is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 39.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 60.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 17
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 39.3% of all recorded uses (11).
Is Maxel rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +97
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 1931 (6)
- Years since peak
- 94
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Maxel
Maxel is not the most common spelling — Manuel is, with 20.5% against Maxel's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Maxel around the world
Where Maxel ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- Canada2021–2021#2,989in 2021
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Maxel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Maxel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Maxel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.