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Maxfield vs Maximiliano

American parents have registered 23,972 Maximilianos since 1880, against 874 Maxfields. Maximiliano is still ahead, with 1,209 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Maxfield 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

Of the 94 years in which either name was published, Maximiliano for 93 years and Maxfield for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Maxfield Maximiliano
Total US births 87423,972
Most in one year 401,460
Babies in 2025 under 51,209
Estimated living today 84024,000
Median age today 259
Peak year 20022019
Best rank 2,470th boys251st boys
Rank in 2025 unranked280th
First recorded 19271917
Girls / boys 0 / 8740 / 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 Maxfields alive today are over 25; half the Maximilianos are over 9. That is 16 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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 Maxfield Maximiliano
England and Wales 7138

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: Maxfield and Maximiliano.