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Maxen vs Maximiliano

American parents have registered 23,972 Maximilianos since 1880, against 517 Maxens. Maximiliano is still ahead, with 1,209 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Maxen 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 2014, when Maxen had 48 and Maximiliano had 961.

Side by side

  Maxen Maximiliano
Total US births 51723,972
Most in one year 591,460
Babies in 2025 201,209
Estimated living today 51024,000
Median age today 99
Peak year 20162019
Best rank 2,255th boys251st boys
Rank in 2025 4,857th280th
First recorded 20021917
Girls / boys 0 / 5170 / 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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Maxen Maximiliano
France 13095
England and Wales 61138

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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