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Maxime

#4,809 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Form of Maximus

Maxime has been given to 1,153 babies in the U.S. since 1920. In 2025 it ranked #4,809 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 40 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% boys, 5% girls all-time.

Babies named Maxime, 2025

1 in 158,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2025, Maxime went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19202025

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.

Maxime: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Maximus

Latin

What Maxime means

Maxime is a form of Maximus.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Maxime is used in French. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maximus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Maxime is pronounced /mak.sim/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,098 boys were recorded with the name Maxime between 1920 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 40 in 2001; its best national rank was #2,458 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,984 in 2020 to #4,809 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,061 in 2015 to #4,809 in 2025.

In the United States, 55 girls were recorded with the name Maxime between 1988 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2001; its best national rank was #11,782 in 1989.

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 Maxime?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 81,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,809
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maxime 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 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maxime. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maximes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maxime was born before 2008 — so the typical Maxime is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,088
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.1% of all recorded uses (331).

Is Maxime 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
−658
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−825
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,748
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.55×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
52.5%
Peak was 2001 (40)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,458
2001

Spellings of Maxime

Maxime is not the most common spelling — Jaime is, with 54.3% against Maxime's 0.83%.

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 Maxime is used

Across 1910–2025, Maxime was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 163,616 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

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

Maxime around the world

Where Maxime 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
    1996–2025
    #1,705
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2024–2024
    #727
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    1971–2016
    #601
    in 2016
  • France
    1900–2025
    #130
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #547
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2004–2004
    #589
    in 2004

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

Maxime by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,809
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 825
Best rank ever
#2,458
2001
Peak year
2001
40 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,098
Count in 2025
21

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,782
1989
Peak year
2001
7 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
55
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Maxime

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

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Sibling names for Maxime

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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