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Maximiliano vs Maximillion

American parents have registered 23,972 Maximilianos since 1880, against 675 Maximillions. Maximiliano is still ahead, with 1,209 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Maximiliano Maximillion

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 1986, when Maximiliano had 22 and Maximillion had 11.

Side by side

  Maximiliano Maximillion
Total US births 23,972675
Most in one year 1,46028
Babies in 2025 1,20913
Estimated living today 24,000660
Median age today 918
Peak year 20191999
Best rank 251st boys2,939th boys
Rank in 2025 280th6,446th
First recorded 19171978
Girls / boys 0 / 23,9720 / 675

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 Maximillions alive today are over 18; half the Maximilianos are over 9. That is 9 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 Maximiliano Maximillion
England and Wales 138104

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: Maximiliano and Maximillion.