Meaning not yet researched.
Maximillian: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 86 in 2025. Its best rank was #675 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #675 in 1999; #1,845 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Maximillian in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,845 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1999, at #675.
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Maximillian: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 86 boys in 2025. Peak: #675 in 1999 · most boys in one year: 250 (1999).
In 2025, 86 US boys were named Maximillian, making it the 1,845th most common boys’ name of the year, up 319 places from #2,164 in 2024. That is 18 more than the 68 boys named Maximillian in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #675, reached in 1999. That year also had the most boys given the name: 250. For comparison, it was #1,596 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maximillian in 72 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 5 babies. In all, 5,968 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,007 babies named Maximillian.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 762 US boys were named Maximillian; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 110. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,861 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Maximillian ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,344 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Max (168,577 babies since 1880), Maximus (34,679 babies since 1880), Maximiliano (23,972 babies since 1880) and Maximilian (18,940 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Maxamillion are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Max.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Maxamillion (461).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 14 | #1,344 | #1,039 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,578 | #1,244 |
| New York | 6 | #1,680 | #1,433 |
| Texas | 9 | #1,855 | #1,510 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 86 | #1,845 |
| 2024 | — | — | 68 | #2,164 |
| 2023 | — | — | 63 | #2,263 |
| 2022 | — | — | 52 | #2,609 |
| 2021 | — | — | 71 | #2,073 |
| 2020 | — | — | 61 | #2,253 |
| 2019 | — | — | 75 | #1,969 |
| 2018 | — | — | 110 | #1,545 |
| 2017 | — | — | 85 | #1,799 |
| 2016 | — | — | 91 | #1,716 |
| 2015 | — | — | 101 | #1,596 |
| 2014 | — | — | 84 | #1,790 |
| 2013 | — | — | 120 | #1,404 |
| 2012 | — | — | 139 | #1,270 |
| 2011 | — | — | 133 | #1,292 |
| 2010 | — | — | 191 | #1,018 |
| 2009 | — | — | 183 | #1,044 |
| 2008 | — | — | 197 | #993 |
| 2007 | — | — | 176 | #1,063 |
| 2006 | — | — | 159 | #1,104 |
| 2005 | — | — | 191 | #924 |
| 2004 | — | — | 200 | #875 |
| 2003 | — | — | 216 | #807 |
| 2002 | — | — | 234 | #743 |
| 2001 | — | — | 209 | #804 |
| 2000 | — | — | 242 | #720 |
| 1999 | — | — | 250 | #675 |
| 1998 | — | — | 227 | #725 |
| 1997 | — | — | 167 | #850 |
| 1996 | — | — | 163 | #854 |
| 1995 | — | — | 140 | #938 |
| 1994 | — | — | 149 | #891 |
| 1993 | — | — | 159 | #837 |
| 1992 | — | — | 115 | #1,023 |
| 1991 | — | — | 99 | #1,102 |
| 1990 | — | — | 107 | #1,025 |
| 1989 | — | — | 87 | #1,142 |
| 1988 | — | — | 83 | #1,095 |
| 1987 | — | — | 75 | #1,110 |
| 1986 | — | — | 55 | #1,332 |
| 1985 | — | — | 33 | #1,823 |
| 1984 | — | — | 29 | #1,921 |
| 1983 | — | — | 32 | #1,777 |
| 1982 | — | — | 31 | #1,839 |
| 1981 | — | — | 36 | #1,650 |
| 1980 | — | — | 39 | #1,561 |
| 1979 | — | — | 29 | #1,893 |
| 1978 | — | — | 23 | #2,110 |
| 1977 | — | — | 21 | #2,246 |
| 1976 | — | — | 25 | #1,970 |
| 1975 | — | — | 21 | #2,180 |
| 1974 | — | — | 18 | #2,330 |
| 1973 | — | — | 27 | #1,725 |
| 1972 | — | — | 16 | #2,390 |
| 1971 | — | — | 26 | #1,765 |
| 1970 | — | — | 22 | #1,915 |
| 1969 | — | — | 17 | #2,102 |
| 1968 | — | — | 13 | #2,409 |
| 1967 | — | — | 10 | #2,714 |
| 1966 | — | — | 6 | #3,787 |
| 1965 | — | — | 7 | #3,446 |
| 1964 | — | — | 7 | #3,495 |
| 1963 | — | — | 9 | #2,987 |
| 1955 | — | — | 6 | #3,752 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,356 |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,350 |
| 1926 | — | — | 6 | #4,036 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,651 |
| 1918 | — | — | 9 | #3,022 |
| 1917 | — | — | 7 | #3,443 |
| 1915 | — | — | 10 | #2,559 |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,585 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).