Maxyne
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Maxyne has been given to 87 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1922, with 15 recorded.
Babies named Maxyne, 1925
1 in 292,000
Maxyne over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Maxyne?
Maxyne had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1925, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1925
- 1 in 292,000
- 8 of 2,333,232 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 152,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1925
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 202,160 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Maxyne sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1925 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 202,160 children born in 1925 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maxyne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Maxynes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Maxyne was born before 1920 — so the typical Maxyne is around 105 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 57.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 57.5% of all recorded uses (50).
Is Maxyne 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1922 (15)
- Years since peak
- 103
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 47.4% average annual change
Spellings of Maxyne
Maxyne is not the most common spelling — Maxine is, with 60.3% against Maxyne's 0.05%.
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.
Maxyne around the world
Where Maxyne 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.
- France2002–2025#2,963in 2025
- Canada2020–2020#3,347in 2020
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Maxyne by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Maxyne
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Maxyne
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.