Maximilien
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From Latin Maximilianus, derived from Maximus ‘greatest’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/maksimiljɛ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maximilien is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 8.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 8.6K
- CMCameroon≈1 in 29K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 300 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- LatinMaximilianus(measured from records)
- Maximus‘greatest’(measured from records)
From Latin Maximilianus, derived from Maximus ‘greatest’
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maximilien counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #844 | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | 12K | Maximilien | 300 |
| BE Belgium | #989 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | 3 | Maximilien | 87 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Maximilien | 9 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 113K | listed | Maximilien | 7 |
| US United States | — | 336 | 1 in 990K | 335 | Maximilien | 106 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 38K | 5 | Maximilien | 38 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the wgnd-cd-names register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Maximilien is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Origine latine, de Maximilianus; signifie « le plus grand ». Prénom ancien, remis en usage moderne.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Maximilien de Béthuneb. 1560FRFrench duke (1560-1641)
- Armand Gaston Maximilien de Rohanb. 1674FRCatholic cardinal
- Ferdinand Maximilien Mériadec de Rohanb. 1738FRFrench Catholic prelate (1738-1813)
- Maximilien de Robespierreb. 1758FRFrench revolutionary lawyer and politician (1758–1794)
- Jean-Frédéric Waldeckb. 1766FRnot in their usual nameFrench antiquarian, explorer, artist (1766-1875)
- Jean Maximilien Lamarqueb. 1770FRFrench commander of the Napoleonic Wars and politician (1770-1832)
- Émile Littréb. 1801FRnot in their usual nameFrench lexicographer and philosopher (1801-1881)
- Maximilien Luceb. 1858FRFrench painter (1858-1941)
- Maximilien de Furstenbergb. 1904BERoman Catholic cardinal (1904–1988)
- Max Boublilb. 1979FRnot in their usual nameFrench comedian, singer and film / TV actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 50 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 12K | #544 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 335 | #27,293 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 8 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1 | #27,293 |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Le Grand Guide des Prénoms | — | — | — |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | WGND 2.0 — DR Congo given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Maximilien mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Maximilianus, derived from Maximus ‘greatest’ Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How do you pronounce Maximilien?
- A machine transcription gives /maksimiljɛ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Maximilien a male or female name?
- Maximilien is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Maximilien?
- In the etymology graph, Max, Maximiliano and Maxime are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Maximilien have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.9 thousand people named Maximilien in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maximilien.
- How common is the name Maximilien?
- In the United States, the national register counted 336 people named Maximilien in 2020, about 1 in 990 thousand residents.
- How common is Maximilien compared with other names?
- In France, Maximilien is the 844th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maximilienThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Maximilien” — the 844th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.