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Maxamus vs Maximiliano

American parents have registered 23,972 Maximilianos since 1880, against 198 Maxamuses. Maximiliano is still ahead, with 1,209 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Maxamus against Maximiliano, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Maxamus Maximiliano

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Maximiliano has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1917 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2001, when Maxamus had 21 and Maximiliano had 237.

Side by side

  Maxamus Maximiliano
Total US births 19823,972
Most in one year 211,460
Babies in 2025 under 51,209
Estimated living today 20024,000
Median age today 179
Peak year 20012019
Best rank 3,842nd boys251st boys
Rank in 2025 unranked280th
First recorded 20011917
Girls / boys 0 / 1980 / 23,972

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Maxamuses alive today are over 17; half the Maximilianos are over 9. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Maxamus and Maximiliano.