Maxene

#11,557 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Maxine

Maxene has been given to 506 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #11,557 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1924, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Maxene, 2025

1 in 414,000

Maxene over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maxene: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Maxine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maxene means

Maxene is a variant of Maxine.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Maxene is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /mæk.ˈsin/ for Maxene.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maxine.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 506 girls were recorded with the name Maxene between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 30 in 1924; its best national rank was #1,546 in 1923.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #15,735 in 2015 to #11,557 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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Maxene?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 414,000; 8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 201,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #11,557; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 287,238 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Maxene sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maxene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maxenes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maxene was born before 1926 — so the typical Maxene is around 99 today.

Median birth year: 1926; About 99 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 43.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 6.9%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 48; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 43.7% of all recorded uses (221).

Is Maxene 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: +4,178; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.33×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 26.7%; Peak was 1924 (30)
Years since peak: 101; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 22.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,546; 1923

Spellings of Maxene

Maxene is not the most common spelling — Marlene is, with 38.0% against Maxene's 0.15%.

Marlene38.0%130,573
Maxine33.7%115,612
Maeve8.6%29,608
Maren3.8%13,059
Alene2.5%8,748
Makena1.9%6,568
Malena1.2%4,058
Maxie1.2%4,025

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.

Where Maxene is used

Across 1910–2025, Maxene was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,901,278 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —
2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Maxene has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maxene around the world

Where Maxene 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.

Canada
2013–2020
#3,144
in 2020
South Australia
1944–1976
#645
in 1976

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Maxene by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #11,557
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #1,546; 1923
Peak year: 1924; 30 that year
First recorded: 1914
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 506
Count in 2025: 8

Names similar to Maxene

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

Maxima Maxwell Solene Aylene Maxiene Mylene Eirene Jaelene Cyrene Adylene Adalene Evelene Celene Karene Genene Jorene Jerene Jenene Ileene Avalene Eulene Eilene Ailene Orlene

Sibling names for Maxene

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

For a sister

Kattie Allene Adell Idella Ima Berta Concepcion Vina

For a brother

Eldridge Delmer Frances Trinidad Lenard Dewitt Jewel Buford

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