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Maximillian

#1,845 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Maximilian

Maximillian has been given to 5,968 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #1,845 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 250 recorded.

Babies named Maximillian, 2025

1 in 38,500

Maximillian over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maximillian: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Maximilian

Latin

What Maximillian means

Maximillian is a variant of Maximilian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Maximillian is used in English. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maximilian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,968 boys were recorded with the name Maximillian between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 250 in 1999; its best national rank was #673 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,253 in 2020 to #1,845 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,596 in 2015 to #1,845 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 Maximillian?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 38,500
86 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 19,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,845
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
26,721 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maximillian 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 26,721 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maximillian. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maximillians were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maximillian was born before 2002 — so the typical Maximillian is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
33.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
55.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,916
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2000s — 33.6% of all recorded uses (2,007).

Is Maximillian 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
+319
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+408
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−249
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.85×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
34.4%
Peak was 1999 (250)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#673
1999

Spellings of Maximillian

Maximillian is not the most common spelling — Maximiliano is, with 47.7% against Maximillian's 11.9%.

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 Maximillian is used

Across 2016–2025, Maximillian was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 23,126 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).

18 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 12,500
  2. 2Illinois1 in 20,000
  3. 3New York1 in 20,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 25,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 25,000
  6. 6Indiana1 in 50,000
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 50,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 50,000

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.

Maximillian around the world

Where Maximillian 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
    #1,466
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1992–2015
    #686
    in 2015
  • Ireland
    1999–2016
    #713
    in 2016
  • France
    1996–2011
    #5,794
    in 2011
  • Norway
    2025–2025
    #483
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1959–2013
    #499
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Maximillian

People whose public names include Maximillian, 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.

Maximillian in other languages

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

MaxMaksMaxieMaximusMaximilianMaximilienMaksymilianMaximilianoMaximillionMassimilianoMaxmiliánMaximiliaanMaksimilijan

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

Maximillian by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,845
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 408
Best rank ever
#673
1999
Peak year
1999
250 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,968
Count in 2025
86

Names similar to Maximillian

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

MaximilianMaxamillianMaximilianoMaxmillianMaximillionMaxamilianMaxamillionMaxmilianMaximillianoMaxemilianoSabastianMaximinoKhristianMaximilienMaxymilianMaksymilianTristianMaxtonCorinthianMaximoCristhianCaspianCillianWillian

Names with a curve like Maximillian

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

TyshawnDallinDeshaunKeyonMarkelDestinBrennonMarquezMarkellQuintenKeltonZakary

Sibling names for Maximillian

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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