girls:
114.4k births since 1884
#332 (94th percentile)
boys:
377 births since 1912
#4209 (8th percentile)
overall:
114.8k births since 1884
#616 (92nd percentile)
The name Maxine is the #616 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 114,791 recorded births since 1884. This represents the 92.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 92.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #332 (94.2% percentile) for all time with 114,414 births since 1884. For boys, it ranks #4,209 (8.2% percentile) for all time with 377 births since 1912.
Maxine first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1884 (1884 for girls and 1912 for boys). Birth data for Maxine is available in 137 out of the 140 years between 1884 and 2023 (137 years for girls and 35 years for boys). 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 Maxine has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Maxine reached its peak popularity in 1923, achieving the 87.7% percentile (ranked #76) with 2,877 births per million. The name was most common in 1923, with 2,877 births per million (ranked 87.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2009, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Maxine ranks #456 for girls (51.9% percentile) with 336 births per million, which is 11.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Maxine reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 3.0% percentile (ranked #527) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 18 births per million (ranked 3.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1951.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Maxine".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Maxine. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.1% confident that Maxine is pronounced as mak-SEEN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAK-seen, at 23.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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