Maximilian
Maximilian is a boy's name that peaked in 2016, when it was the 432nd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 590th. About 19,000 Maximilians are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Maximilian
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 18,940
- Estimated living today
- 19,000
- Median age today
- 15
- Peak year
- 2016
- Best rank
- 432nd
- Rank in 2025
- 590th
- First recorded
- 1907
How old the living Maximilians are
born that year still alive today
Of the 18,940 babies given the name since 1907, about 19,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 11,000 of them are children and 17 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
From German Maximilian, ultimately of Latin origin.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Maximilians
- Maximilian I (1459–1519)Holy Roman Emperor
- Maximilian Schell (1930–2014)Swiss and Austrian film and stage actor
- Maximilian I of Mexico (1832–1867)emperor of Mexico
- Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (1527–1576)King of the Romans, King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia
- Maximilian Kolbe (1894–1941)Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, martyr and saint of the Roman Catholic Church
- Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (1756–1825)King of Bavaria
- Maximilian II of Bavaria (1811–1864)King of Bavaria between 1848 and 1864
- Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (1573–1651)Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and prince-elector (Kurfürst) of the Holy Roman Empire
People named Maximilian with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Maximilian is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Maximilian is most concentrated in Nevada (2.0×), California (2.0×), Arizona (1.8×), Florida (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2016
The most popular boys’ names the year Maximilian peaked:
Maximilian elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria boys | Maximilian | 25,678 | 1st |
| England and Wales boys | Maximilian | 8,128 | 150th |
| Poland boys | Maximilian +1 spelling | 3,116 birth registrations | 99th |
| Sweden boys | Maximilian | 2,646 | 74th |
| Switzerland boys | Maximilian | 2,206 | 54th |
| Italy boys | Maximilian | 1,212 | — |
| Norway boys | Maximilian | 616 | 149th |
| France boys | Maximilian | 595 | 1,161st |
| Ireland boys | Maximilian | 466 | 150th |
| Belgium boys | Maximilian | 371 | 476th |
| Scotland boys | Maximilian | 300 | 247th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Maximilian | 37 | 243rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Maximilian: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Maximilian | 2,015 | 0.162% | 37th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Maximilian | 162 | 0.037% | 141st |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Maximilian | 25 | 0.038% | 86th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Maximilian | 4 | 0.108% | 19th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Maximilian is most concentrated in Basel-Stadt, where 0.25% of children were given it – 92 of them.
Maximilian: rank by region
In 2025, Maximilian was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Maximilian | 642 | 8 |
In 2020, Maximilian was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano | Maximilian | 10 | 36 |
In 2025, Maximilian was given 2 times or more in 14 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Maximilian | 157 | 6 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Maximilian | 119 | 5 |
| Lubuskie | Maximilian | 99 | 4 |
| Łódzkie | Maximilian | 183 | 2 |
| Małopolskie | Maximilian | 132 | 9 |
| Mazowieckie | Maximilian | 154 | 12 |
| Opolskie | Maximilian | 126 | 2 |
| Podkarpackie | Maximilian | 135 | 3 |
| Podlaskie | Maximilian | 113 | 3 |
| Pomorskie | Maximilian | 161 | 4 |
| Śląskie | Maximilian | 145 | 7 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Maximilian | 136 | 2 |
| Wielkopolskie | Maximilian | 215 | 3 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Maximilian | 138 | 3 |
In 2024, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Maximilian appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (214th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Maximilian by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 1,004 | 8th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Maximilian among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Maximilian | 381 | 1,099 |
| Finland girls | Maximilian | — | 5 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Maximilian lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 577 men called Maximilian were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balears, Illes | Maximilian | 73 | 0.117 | 630 |
| Barcelona | Maximilian | 159 | 0.055 | 1,061 |
| Palmas, Las | Maximilian | 32 | 0.055 | 1,469 |
| Málaga | Maximilian | 39 | 0.045 | 1,197 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Maximilian | 21 | 0.039 | 1,965 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Maximilian | 31 | 0.031 | 1,923 |
Listed in 15 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 37 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Maximilian against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.