How popular is the baby name Maximilian in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Maximilian.

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Popularity of the baby name Maximilian


Posts that mention the name Maximilian

Popular baby names in Austria, 2015

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According to data released in December of 2016 by Statistics Austria, the most popular baby names in the country in 2015 were Anna (and variants) and Lukas (and variants).

Here are Austria’s top 10 girl name-groups and top 10 boy name-groups of 2015:

Girl Names

  1. Anna (21 variants, including Ann, Hannah, Yahna)
  2. Sophie (12 variants, including Sophia)
  3. Maria (36 variants, including Merry, Moira, Miriam)
  4. Emilia (14 variants)
  5. Elena (40 variants, including Elaine, Helen, Ilijana)
  6. Emma (1 variant)
  7. Lena (8 variants)
  8. Sarah (9 variants)
  9. Mia (2 variants)
  10. Laura (1 variant)

Boy Names

  1. Lukas (11 variants, including Luc)
  2. David (12 variants)
  3. Jakob (20 variants, including Giacomo, Jaime, Tiago)
  4. Elias (31 variants, including Ilian)
  5. Maximilian (9 variants)
  6. Alexander (32 variants, including Alejandro, Alistair, Iskender)
  7. Jonas (12 variants)
  8. Paul (7 variants, including Pablo)
  9. Tobias (3 variants)
  10. Leon (7 variants, including Levon)

The #1 name-groups were the same in 2014. There are no new entries on either top 10 list.

Source: Anna und Lukas sind die beliebtesten Babynamen 2015 (found via Popularity of Names in Austria, 2015)

Image: Adapted from Flag of Austria (public domain)

Popular baby names in Germany, 2015

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According to data from the Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache (Association for German Language), the most popular baby names in Germany in 2015 were Mia and Jonas.

Here are the country’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2015:

Girl NamesBoy Names
1. Mia
2. Emma
3. Hanna/Hannah
4. Sophia/Sofia
5. Anna
6. Emilia
7. Mila
8. Lea/Leah
9. Lina
10. Lena		1. Jonas
2. Maximilian
3. Ben
4. Luca/Luka
5. Leon/Léon
6. Louis/Luis
7. Lukas/Lucas
8. Elias
9. Felix
10. Noah/Noa

In the girls’ top 10, Mila replaced Marie.

In the boys’ top 10, Elias replaced Paul.

Hanna/Hannah and Luis/Louis were the #1 names (and Jonas was down in 7th) in 2014.

One interesting baby name bestowed in Germany in 2015 was “Gretchen Schneewittchen,” or “Gretchen Snow White,” discovered by name researcher Knud Bielefeld. It may have been inspired by Grimm World, the Brothers Grimm museum that opened in Kassel, Germany, in 2015.

Sources:

Image: Adapted from Flag of Germany (public domain)

Popular baby names in Germany, 2014

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According to data from the Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache (Association for German Language), the most popular baby names in Germany in 2014 were Hanna/Hannah and Luis/Louis.

Here are the country’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2014:

Girl namesBoy names
1. Hanna/Hannah
2. Mia
3. Emma
4. Sophia/Sofia
5. Emilia
6. Lena
7. Anna
8. Lea/Leah
9. Marie
10. Lina		1. Luis/Louis
2. Leon/Léon
3. Maximilian
4. Ben
5. Paul
6. Lukas/Lucas
7. Jonas
8. Noah/Noa
9. Luka/Luca
10. Felix

On the girls’ list, Lea/Leah replaced Johanna.

On the boys’ list, Maximilian replaced Finn/Fin/Fynn.

The previous #1 names were Mia and Ben.

Here are the top baby names in Germany for 2013, 2012 and 2010.

Update, 5/7: I replaced the original rankings in this post (which mixed firsts and middles) with the rankings above (which is first names only). Thanks, Diane!

Sources: GfdS (2014), GfdS (2013)

Image: Adapted from Flag of Germany (public domain)

Popular baby names in Germany, 2013

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Two unofficial lists of the top baby names in Germany are now out.

According to Knud Bielefeld of the blog Beliebte Vornamen, the most popular baby names last year were Mia and Ben.

According to the Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache (Association for German Language), though, the most popular baby names last year were Sophie/Sofie and Maximilian.

Here are Bielefeld’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2013:

Girl NamesBoy Names
1. Mia
2. Emma
3. Hanna/Hannah
4. Sophia/Sofia
5. Anna
6. Lea
7. Emilia
8. Marie
9. Lena
10. Leonie		1. Ben
2. Luca/Luka
3. Paul
4. Jonas
5. Finn/Fynn
6. Leon
7. Luis/Louis
8. Lucas/Lukas
9. Maximilian
10. Felix

And here are the GfdS’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2013:

Girl NamesBoy Names
1. Sophie/Sofie
2. Marie
3. Sophia/Sofia
4. Maria
5. Mia
6. Emma
7. Hannah/Hanna
8. Anna
9. Emilia
10. Johanna		1. Maximilian
2. Alexander
3. Paul
4. Luca/Luka
5. Ben
6. Luis/Louis
7. Elias
8. Leon
9. Lukas/Lucas
10. Noah

So what’s the difference between these lists? Bielefeld focused on first names only, while the GfdS included all given names (firsts + middles) on the same list.

That said…this year, for the first time, the GfdS issued a two extra mini-lists. One is first names only, the other is middle names only.

Here are their most popular first names (nearly identical to Bielefeld’s list):

Girl NamesBoy Names
1. Mia
2. Emma
3. Hanna/Hannah		1. Ben
2. Paul
3. Luca/Luka

And here are their most popular middle names:

Girl NamesBoy Names
1. Sophie/Sofie
2. Marie
3. Maria		1. Alexander
2. Maximilian
3. Elias

If you’d like to see the 2012 lists, here they are: GfdS, Bielefeld.

Sources: Ben and Mia – Germany’s top baby names, Die beliebtesten Vornamen 2013

Image: Adapted from Flag of Germany (public domain)