Maximillien

Boys' name

Variant of Maximilien

Maximillien has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 2000. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2000, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Maximillien, 2000

1 in 630,000

Maximillien over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maximillien: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Maximilien

Latin

What Maximillien means

Maximillien is a variant of Maximilien.

Origin, language, and formation

Maximillien is used in French. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maximilien.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Maximillien between 2000 and 2000. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2000; its best national rank was #9,881 in 2000.

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.

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How common is Maximillien?

Maximillien had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2000, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2000: 1 in 630,000; 6 of 3,778,496 births
Among boys only: 1 in 327,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2000: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 436,510 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Maximillien 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 2000 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 436,510 children born in 2000 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maximillien. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maximilliens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maximillien was born before 2000 — so the typical Maximillien is around 25 today.

Median birth year: 2000; About 25 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 6; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Maximillien 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: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2000 (6)
Years since peak: 25; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #9,881; 2000

Spellings of Maximillien

Maximillien is not the most common spelling — Maximilian is, with 72.0% against Maximillien's 0.02%.

Maximilian72.0%18,940
Maximillian22.7%5,968
Maximilliano2.7%723
Maximillion2.6%675
Maximillien0.02%6

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.

Maximillien around the world

Where Maximillien 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.

France
1987–2012
#5,580
in 2012

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Maximillien by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #9,881; 2000
Peak year: 2000; 6 that year
First recorded: 2000
Last recorded: 2000
All-time count: 6
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Maximillien

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

Sibling names for Maximillien

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

Nada Sydnie Sydni Savana Brigid Jackeline Gabriel Halie

For a brother

Donavon Kevon Keshawn Syed Koby Shamar Johnson Lars

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