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How popular is the name Maximilian?

Births per year, rank history and how many Maximilians are alive today.

Maximilian (male) sits just outside the top 100 boys' names in England and Wales, ranked 206th in 2025 with 245 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2016, when 389 babies were given the name, the 150th most popular that year. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 8,100 babies have been named Maximilian in England and Wales since 1996. Common short forms of Maximilian include Max and Mac.

The Maximilian you are most likely to meet is around 9 years old. Half of all Maximilians born in England and Wales are between 8 and 24, and there are at least 9,100 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 3% chance that at least one of them will be called Maximilian.

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Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.