Maksymilian
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Meaning
the greatest (Polish form of Maximilian)
Maksymilian's name day is August 14 by Polish tradition.
The story
Maksymilian is the Polish spelling of Maximilian, from the Latin maximus, the greatest, a name Roman families coined and European royalty kept. For Poland it now belongs to one man. Maksymilian Kolbe was a Franciscan friar imprisoned in Auschwitz who, in the summer of 1941, stepped out of a line of prisoners and asked to die in the place of a stranger, a father named Franciszek Gajowniczek. The camp accepted the trade. Kolbe was canonized in 1982, with Gajowniczek present in the crowd, and Polish imieniny calendars honor Maksymilian on August 14, the day of his death. In American records the full Polish spelling has stayed below the top 1000 in every decade, living inside diaspora families while Max does the everyday work. It is a heavy name to carry, and that is precisely why some families choose to carry it.
How popular is Maksymilian around the world?
In the United States, 86 babies were named Maksymilian between 2020 and 2025. In Poland, 2,760 boys named Maksymilian were born in 2025, the 11th most common name among boys that year.
Maksymilian is on the official records of the United States, Poland, Norway, Scotland, Austria, Ireland, England and Wales and Spain.
United States
1 in 250,000
In the United States, 86 babies were named Maksymilian between 2020 and 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Maksymilian has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Poland
1 in 89
In Poland, 2,760 boys named Maksymilian were born in 2025, the 11th most common name among boys that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
First names given to children born in Poland by year of birth, 2000–2025, from the PESEL population register (Ministry of Digital Affairs); exact spellings count separately (Łukasz and Lukasz are different names), names given fewer than 5 times in a year were left off the list through 2012 and fewer than 2 times from 2013, and the register also counts children born abroad, so its yearly sums run above Poland’s live births. Shares divide by the register’s own published total for the year, never by births. Source: Ministry of Digital Affairs, PESEL register (dane.gov.pl)
Norway
1 in 7,100register 2026
In Norway, 4 boys were given the name Maksymilian in 2025.
share of the boys on the register for that year, SSB’s own figure
People who have or have had a Norwegian ID number, emigrants left out, from Statistics Norway’s name statistics (release of January 2026): by year of birth for 1945–2020 (everyone born that year who was ever registered in Norway, including people who registered later and people who have since died) and by year of naming from 2021; only first names carried by 200 or more living people are listed, counts under 4 are withheld, and SSB merges spellings that differ only by letters outside the Norwegian alphabet. The shares are SSB’s own, of the people of that sex and year in that count; the 2025 figure counts the children named that year, and no year is a count of births. Source: Statistics Norway (SSB), table 10467 (updated 2026-01-28)
Scotland
1 in 7,600
In Scotland, 6 boys named Maksymilian were registered in 2024, the 478th most common name among boys that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
Births registered in Scotland; different spellings count separately but accents are merged at source, and any spelling under 3 in total is suppressed. Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names
Austria
1 in 11,000
In Austria, 7 boys named Maksymilian were born in 2025, the 594th most common name among boys that year, spellings that differ only by special characters counted together.
The count never rose above 7 in a year, too few to chart.
Live births in Austria by year of birth, 1984–2025, from Statistik Austria’s first-name statistics; spellings that differ only by special characters are counted together (umlauts stay apart), every name down to a single birth is published, and the count covers babies with Austrian citizenship only until 2009, every baby from 2010, and from 2015 also births abroad to mothers living in Austria. Shares divide by Statistik Austria’s count of live births from 2010, and before that by the file’s own total for the year. Source: Statistik Austria - data.statistik.gv.at (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1, updated 2026-07-09)
Ireland
1 in 14,000
In Ireland, 4 boys named Maksymilian were born in 2025, the 676th most common name among boys that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
Exact registered spellings from Irish vital statistics; any name under 3 in a year is withheld at source, and accented spellings (fadas) are recorded reliably only from 2018. Source: Central Statistics Office (Ireland), Irish babies' names
England and Wales
1 in 20,000
In England and Wales, 30 boys named Maksymilian were born in 2025, ranked 1,007th among boys that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
Spain
1 in 970,000
In Spain, 46 residents are named Maksymilian, ranked 15,614th among men, with a mean age of 17.5 years.
Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025
Canada
last on record 2020
Maksymilian is not on the 2024 record for Canada, where names under 5 in a year are excluded at source.
The count never rose above 9 in a year, too few to chart.
First given names from provincial and territorial vital statistics across Canada; any name-sex-year under 5 is excluded at source, and small Quebec counts carry a randomized adjustment made at source. Shares divide by Statistics Canada’s count of live births for the year; the 2024 count is preliminary. Source: Statistics Canada, first names at birth (table 17-10-0147-01)
Not on the record in Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico and New Zealand: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years.
When you meet Maksymilian
Most people given the name Maksymilian in the United States are children or teenagers today. The name belongs to this generation.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
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