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Maximo

#580 in 2025Boys' name

From Spanish Máximo; literal meaning unconfirmed

Maximo has been given to 9,223 babies in the U.S. since 1903. In 2025 it ranked #580 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 506 recorded.

Babies named Maximo, 2025

1 in 6,550

Maximo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maximo: meaning, origin, and history

From Spanish Máximo; literal meaning unconfirmed

Spanish

What Maximo means

Maximo is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Maximo is used in English, Cebuano and Tagalog. Its origins include Spanish.

Maximo comes through Spanish Máximo.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Tagalog, Maximo is pronounced /ˈmaksimo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,223 boys were recorded with the name Maximo between 1903 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 506 in 2025; its best national rank was #578 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #754 in 2020 to #580 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #857 in 2015 to #580 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 Maximo?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 6,550
506 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 3,380
0.03% of boys
Rank, 2025
#580
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
4,542 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maximo 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 1001%
School of 5007%

Put another way: gather 4,542 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maximo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maximos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maximo was born before 2012 — so the typical Maximo is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
8,735
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 29.0% of all recorded uses (2,676).

Is Maximo 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
+11
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+174
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+277
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.92×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (506)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#578
2023

Spellings of Maximo

Maximo is not the most common spelling — Mario is, with 69.8% against Maximo's 4.3%.

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 Maximo is used

Across 2016–2025, Maximo was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 1,923 boys, against 1 in 4,094 across all states with data. It was least common in Louisiana (1 in 50,000).

252 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 1,923
  2. 2California1 in 2,128
  3. 3Florida1 in 2,326
  4. 4Texas1 in 2,326
  5. 5Nevada1 in 2,632
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 4,348
  7. 7Illinois1 in 4,545
  8. 8New Mexico1 in 5,263

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.

Geographically, Maximo is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 90% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Maximo around the world

Where Maximo 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
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2025–2025
    #762
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2020–2020
    #741
    in 2020
  • France
    1928–2024
    #6,405
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #916
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2006–2012
    #385
    in 2012

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.

Notable people named Maximo

People whose public names include Maximo, 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.

Maximo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#580
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 174
Best rank ever
#578
2023
Peak year
2025
506 that year
First recorded
1903
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,223
Count in 2025
506

Names similar to Maximo

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

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Names with a curve like Maximo

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

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Sibling names for Maximo

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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