# Maxime (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/maxime/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,153 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,098 / 55 (5% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 542, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 5 | 13,106 |
| 1989 | 6 | 11,788 |
| 1994 | 6 | 12,818 |
| 2000 | 6 | 14,362 |
| 2001 | 7 | 12,964 |
| 2003 | 5 | 17,431 |
| 2005 | 5 | 18,226 |
| 2008 | 5 | 19,463 |
| 2009 | 5 | 19,190 |
| 2019 | 5 | 17,158 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 34 | 3,284 |
| 2012 | 37 | 3,093 |
| 2013 | 28 | 3,720 |
| 2014 | 35 | 3,195 |
| 2015 | 38 | 3,062 |
| 2016 | 31 | 3,578 |
| 2017 | 37 | 3,170 |
| 2018 | 27 | 3,955 |
| 2019 | 38 | 3,132 |
| 2020 | 26 | 3,987 |
| 2021 | 27 | 3,969 |
| 2022 | 22 | 4,645 |
| 2023 | 30 | 3,769 |
| 2024 | 26 | 4,154 |
| 2025 | 21 | 4,810 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 3 | 3,824 |
| 1999 | 6 | 2,444 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 19 | 1,303 |
| 2012 | 19 | 1,313 |
| 2013 | 27 | 1,024 |
| 2014 | 21 | 1,223 |
| 2015 | 18 | 1,380 |
| 2016 | 30 | 974 |
| 2017 | 22 | 1,210 |
| 2018 | 23 | 1,158 |
| 2019 | 19 | 1,316 |
| 2020 | 19 | 1,314 |
| 2021 | 22 | 1,218 |
| 2022 | 18 | 1,420 |
| 2023 | 17 | 1,461 |
| 2024 | 20 | 1,322 |
| 2025 | 15 | 1,705 |

## People named Maxime

- Maxime Weygand, French general (1867–1965)
- Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, French chess player
- Maxime Gonalons, French footballer (born 1989)
- Maxime Bossis, French football player and manager
- Maxime Rodinson, French historian, sociologist and orientalist (1915–2004)
- Maxime Crépeau, Canadian soccer player
- Maxime Lopez, Algerian and French footballer
- Maxime Lestienne, Belgian association football player (born 1992)
- Maxime Verhagen, Dutch former politician
- Maxime Loïc Feudjou, Cameroonian association football player
- Maxime Monfort, Belgian road bicycle racer
- Maxime Du Camp, French photographer and writer (1822–1894)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.