girls:
55 births since 1988
#5661 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.1k births since 1920
#3545 (23rd percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1920
#6633 (14th percentile)
The name Maxime is the #6,633 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,106 recorded births since 1920. This represents the 14.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 14.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,545 (22.7% percentile) for all time with 1,051 births since 1920. For girls, it ranks #5,661 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 55 births since 1988.
Maxime first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1920 (1920 for boys and 1988 for girls). Birth data for Maxime is available in 48 out of the 104 years between 1920 and 2023 (48 years for boys and 10 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Maxime has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Maxime reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 4.2% percentile (ranked #790) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 20 births per million (ranked 3.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Maxime ranks #886 for boys (2.7% percentile) with 16 births per million, which is 82.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Maxime reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #820) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Maxime".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Maxime. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.2% confident that Maxime is pronounced as mak-SEEM, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAK-seem, at 19.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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