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Maximilliano vs Maximus

American parents have registered 34,679 Maximuses since 1880, against 723 Maximillianos. Maximus is still ahead, with 1,249 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Maximilliano against Maximus, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Maximilliano Maximus

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 35 years in which either name was published, Maximus for 28 years and Maximilliano for 7 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Maximilliano Maximus
Total US births 72334,679
Most in one year 482,137
Babies in 2025 261,249
Estimated living today 72034,000
Median age today 1011
Peak year 20112014
Best rank 2,547th boys192nd boys
Rank in 2025 4,050th275th
First recorded 19771997
Girls / boys 0 / 72317 / 34,662

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.

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