Maxie
Maxie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 516th, in 1935.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1935125 births
- Best rank
- #516in 1935
- Since 1888
- 8,648people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,640 boys have been named Maxie in the United States since 1888, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1935, with 125 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 125 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1941, and the 1930s alone account for 21%. It has spent 62 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Maxie is used for both sexes: 46% of its bearers are girls (4,008), most of them born around 1917.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Maxie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 7 | |
| 1890s | 64 | |
| 1900s | 101 | |
| 1910s | 432 | |
| 1920s | 671 | |
| 1930s | 954 | |
| 1940s | 829 | |
| 1950s | 580 | |
| 1960s | 428 | |
| 1970s | 222 | |
| 1980s | 183 | |
| 1990s | 76 | |
| 2000s | 70 | |
| 2010s | 23 |
In 1935, its biggest year
Maxie was the 516th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1935 were Robert, James, John, William and Richard. See all of 1935.
Names that rose and fell with Maxie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rogerspeak 1950
- Haywardpeak 1956
- Tommiepeak 1947
- Boycepeak 1934
- Leroypeak 1924
- Carrollpeak 1934
- Garlandpeak 1922
- Benniepeak 1929
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.