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Maxence

#8,023 in 2025Boys' name

Greatest

Maxence has been given to 77 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #8,023 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Maxence, 2025

1 in 332,000

Maxence over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maxence: meaning, origin, and history

Greatest

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maxence means

Maxence means “greatest”.

Origin, language, and formation

Maxence is used in French and Middle French.

Maxence comes through Middle French Maxence and Indonesian masculine name.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Maxence is pronounced /mak.sɑ̃s/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 77 boys were recorded with the name Maxence between 2001 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2025; its best national rank was #8,023 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,215 in 2020 to #8,023 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Maxence?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,023
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maxence sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maxence. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maxences were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maxence was born before 2016 — so the typical Maxence is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
46.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
77
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 46.8% of all recorded uses (36).

Is Maxence 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
+2,192
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (10)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
7.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,023
2025

Spellings of Maxence

Maxence is not the most common spelling — Cadence is, with 35.2% against Maxence's 1.3%.

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.

Maxence around the world

Where Maxence 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.

  • England & Wales
    2004–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    1900–2025
    #92
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #428
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Maxence by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,023
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,192
Best rank ever
#8,023
2025
Peak year
2025
10 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
77
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Maxence

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Maxence

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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