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Maxie

#10,318 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Diminutive of Maximilian

Maxie has been given to 8,672 babies in the U.S. since 1888. In 2025 it ranked #10,318 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1935, with 125 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 54% boys, 46% girls all-time.

Babies named Maxie, 2025

1 in 474,000

Maxie over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Maxie over time

In 2025, Maxie went to 70% girls and 30% boys.

18842025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Maxie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Maximilian

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maxie means

Maxie is a diminutive of Maximilian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Maxie → Maximilian. The family’s meaning is “greatest”, recorded in the naming reference for Maximilian.

Origin, language, and formation

Maxie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maximilian and Maxy.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,647 boys were recorded with the name Maxie between 1888 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 125 in 1935; its best national rank was #516 in 1935.

In the United States, 4,025 girls were recorded with the name Maxie between 1884 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 96 in 1917; its best national rank was #553 in 1908.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,309 in 2015 to #7,025 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 Maxie?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,318
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maxie 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maxie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maxies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maxie was born before 1941 — so the typical Maxie is around 84 today.

Median birth year
1941
About 84 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
20.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,589
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1930s — 20.5% of all recorded uses (954).

Is Maxie 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
5.6%
Peak was 1935 (125)
Years since peak
90
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#516
1935

Spellings of Maxie

Maxie is not the most common spelling — Max is, with 32.2% against Maxie's 0.89%.

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 Maxie is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Maxie was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 4,000 boys, against 1 in 34,630 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

025 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 4,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in 20,000
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 20,000
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 20,000
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 33,333
  6. 6Kentucky1 in 33,333
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 33,333
  8. 8Texas1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Maxie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Maxie is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Maxie was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 34,824 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

012 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 8,333
  2. 2Tennessee1 in 12,500
  3. 3Virginia1 in 12,500
  4. 4Georgia1 in 16,667
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 20,000
  6. 6Alabama1 in 33,333
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 33,333
  8. 8Arkansas1 in 50,000

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. Maxie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maxie around the world

Where Maxie 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
    2002–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1949–2007
    #680
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Maxie

People whose public names include Maxie, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Maxie in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Maxie. Linked forms have their own page here.

MaxMaxiMaxeyMaximilianMaximilienMaksymilianMaximilianoMaximillianMassimilianoMaxmiliánMaximiliaanMaksimilijan

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Maxie by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,318
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#516
1935
Peak year
1935
125 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,647
Count in 2025
7

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,025
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#553
1908
Peak year
1917
96 that year
First recorded
1884
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,025
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Maxie

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

MaximMaxtonMaxxMaxonMaximoMaximeMaxenMaxsonMaximinoMaximusMaximosMaxeyMaxiMaxxonMaxtenMaxtynDixieMaxineMaxymMaxximusMaxwellMaximillianMaxwelLexie

Names with a curve like Maxie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Maxie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

BoyceWaymonMeltonBonnieHaywardReynoldSherwoodTheadoreRayfordWinfordAlfordLynwood

Sibling names for Maxie

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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