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Maximiliano vs Maxx

American parents have registered 23,972 Maximilianos since 1880, against 4,189 Maxxes. Maximiliano is still ahead, with 1,209 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Maximiliano Maxx

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 93 years in which either name was published, Maximiliano for 88 years and Maxx for 5 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Maximiliano Maxx
Total US births 23,9724,189
Most in one year 1,460216
Babies in 2025 1,20998
Estimated living today 24,0004,100
Median age today 915
Peak year 20192009
Best rank 251st boys958th boys
Rank in 2025 280th1,753rd
First recorded 19171980
Girls / boys 0 / 23,972111 / 4,078

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 Maxxes alive today are over 15; half the Maximilianos are over 9. That is 6 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 Maxx
England and Wales 138276
Ireland 36

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 Maxx.