Maxine
Maxine is ranked 520th among girls in 2024 (591 births). Its best rank was 76th, in 1923.
- Rank in 2024
- #520down 6 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 5910.04% of girls
- Peak year
- 19243,659 births
- Best rank
- #76in 1923
- Since 1884
- 115,010people given the name
The story in the numbers
115,010 girls have been named Maxine in the United States since 1884, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 3,659 births — 0.29% of all girls recorded that year.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1931, and the 1920s alone account for 29%. It has spent 101 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 16 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Maxine | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 21 | |
| 1890s | 173 | |
| 1900s | 1,409 | |
| 1910s | 17,800 | |
| 1920s | 33,743 | |
| 1930s | 20,477 | |
| 1940s | 16,070 | |
| 1950s | 9,741 | |
| 1960s | 4,309 | |
| 1970s | 1,541 | |
| 1980s | 1,357 | |
| 1990s | 1,885 | |
| 2000s | 1,570 | |
| 2010s | 2,470 | |
| 2020s | 2,444 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Maxine was the 77th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1924 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Betty and Margaret. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Maxine
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jaunitapeak 1924
- Lavaughnpeak 1923
- Wanetapeak 1923
- Vernellepeak 1924
- Clarinepeak 1923
- Lavernepeak 1924
- Syblepeak 1920
- Margoriepeak 1925
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.