Maximiliano vs Maximillian
American parents have registered 23,972 Maximilianos since 1880, against 5,968 Maximillians. Maximiliano is still ahead, with 1,209 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Maximiliano Maximillian
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 98 years in which either name was published, Maximiliano for 57 years and Maximillian for 41 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.
- 1914–1918 Maximillian ahead
- 1920–1925 Maximiliano ahead
- 1926 Maximillian ahead
- 1928–1929 Maximiliano ahead
- 1930 Maximillian ahead
- 1931–1962 Maximiliano ahead
- 1963 Maximillian ahead
- 1964–1966 Maximiliano ahead
- 1967–2000 Maximillian ahead
- 2001–2025 Maximiliano ahead
Side by side
| Maximiliano | Maximillian | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 23,972 | 5,968 |
| Most in one year | 1,460 | 250 |
| Babies in 2025 | 1,209 | 86 |
| Estimated living today | 24,000 | 5,800 |
| Median age today | 9 | 23 |
| Peak year | 2019 | 1999 |
| Best rank | 251st boys | 675th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 280th | 1,837th |
| First recorded | 1917 | 1914 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 23,972 | 0 / 5,968 |
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 Maximillians alive today are over 23; half the Maximilianos are over 9. That is 14 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Maximiliano Arizona (4.5×), Nevada (4.5×), California (3.4×)
- Maximillian California (3.0×), New York (2.1×), Florida (2.0×)
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 | Maximillian |
|---|---|---|
| England and Wales | 138 | 1,900 |
| Poland | 16 | 140 |
| France | 95 | 15 |
| Ireland | 3 | 60 |
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 Maximillian.