boys:
17.9k births since 1907
#859 (81st percentile)
overall:
17.9k births since 1907
#1922 (75th percentile)
The name Maximilian is the #1,922 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 17,949 recorded births since 1907. This represents the 75.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #859 (81.3% percentile) for all time with 17,949 births since 1907.
Maximilian first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1907 (first recorded for boys in 1907). Birth data for Maximilian is available in 80 out of the 117 years between 1907 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Maximilian reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 55.9% percentile (ranked #407) with 354 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 354 births per million (ranked 55.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Maximilian ranks #492 for boys (46.0% percentile) with 279 births per million, which is 78.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Maximilian".
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Our model has identified 12 different pronunciations for the name Maximilian. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 27.8% confident that Maximilian is pronounced as mak-sih-MIHL-yuhn, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mak-sih-MIH-lee-uhn, at 13.0% confidence, with 5 syllables.
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