Maxine

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Maxine: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Maxine: Recorded since 1954, with a gap of 13 years, its highest recorded position is #97, and it stood at #1,353 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
48times a registrar ranked it
71years from first to last
#97highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Maxine's record

Absent from every published list for 13 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#462
1997	#736
1998	#787
1999	#1261
2000	#969
2001	#853
2002	#1066
2003	#1383
2004	#2802
2005	#2438
2006	#1243
2007	#1443
2008	#1641
2009	#2759
2010	#2843
2011	#2150
2012	#1809
2013	#2460
2014	#2058
2015	#1961
2016	#2120
2017	#2502
2018	#1788
2019	#1940
2020	#1846
2021	#2341
2022	#1948
2023	#1056
2024	#1353

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 18 of the 46 years from 1968 to 2013.

In 2013: #894 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2460 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1954–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1968
First recorded at #401 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1968 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1353 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Maxine appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 521 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1968.

Maxine across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Maxine's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#401 (1968)	#343 (1975)	#894 (2013)	18 of 46	72 (1968–2013)	8 (1977)
England and Wales · Girls	#462 (1996)	#462 (1996)	#1353 (2024)	29 of 29	521 (1996–2024)	62 (1996)

Maxine by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Maxine in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	138	4 of 10	35
2000s	161	10 of 10	16
2010s	126	10 of 10	13
2020sbusiest	96	5 of 10	19

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 19 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1996 and 1997, when recorded births fell by 30, from 62 to 32.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Maxine appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1954 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #97 in New South Wales, Australia in 1954.

Maxine's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1353	24	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1056	32	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1948	14	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2341	11	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1846	15	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1940	14	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1788	16	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2502	10	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2120	13	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1961	14	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2058	13	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2460	10	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1809	16	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2150	12	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2843	8	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2759	8	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1641	16	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1443	18	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1243	21	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2438	8	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2802	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1383	15	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1066	20	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#853	27	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#969	22	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1261	15	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#787	29	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#736	32	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#462	62	High	Verified
1954	New South Wales, Australia	female	#97	74	Insufficient	Not yet available
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#798	4	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#620	3	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	female	#492	3	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#519	3	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#516	3	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#533	3	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#483	4	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#467	4	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#388	6	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#348	8	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	female	#343	7	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	female	#393	5	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#471	3	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	female	#396	4	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	female	#401	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1954 and 2024, ranked in 43 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #97, first reached in 1954.

It held a top-100 place in 1 year.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 74 births, registered in New South Wales, Australia in 1954.

Its record falls into 9 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 13 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1968, and 42 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Maxwell · #71, 40y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Caoimhin · #99, 39y
Kieron · #100, 48y
Aishling · #93, 48y
Leonora · #92, 48y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Fay · #97, 33y
Ingvill · #97, 59y
Darrell · #96, 53y
Dawn · #95, 64y

Maxine was ranked #97 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls in 1954. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Maxine and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Maxine without appearing here.

Maxine moved ahead of

Siobhán Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2502 and #1817 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1788 and #4684.
Brittany Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2438 and #1500 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1243 and #3548.
Jodie Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1948 and #1948 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1056 and #2927.
Nicola Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1948 and #1282 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1056 and #2689.

Moved ahead of Maxine

Alma Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1383 and #2727 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #2802 and #1535.
Ada Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1383 and #1628 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #2802 and #1617.
Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #2058 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #1961 and #1240.
Mari Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1066 and #1104 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #1383 and #742.

Moved the opposite way to Maxine

Aisling Compare
Between 1968 and 2013 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Maxine went from #401 to #894 while Aisling went from #87 to #51.
Alexandra Compare
Between 1968 and 2013 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Maxine went from #401 to #894 while Alexandra went from #222 to #90.
Alice Compare
Between 1968 and 2013 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Maxine went from #401 to #894 while Alice went from #87 to #52.
Amy Compare
Between 1968 and 2013 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Maxine went from #401 to #894 while Amy went from #357 to #26.

Moved the same way as Maxine

Alma Compare
Between 1968 and 2013 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Maxine went from #401 to #894 and Alma from #250 to #660.
Camilla Compare
Between 1968 and 2013 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Maxine went from #401 to #894 and Camilla from #270 to #660.
Deirdre Compare
Between 1968 and 2013 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Maxine went from #401 to #894 and Deirdre from #7 to #747.
Diane Compare
Between 1968 and 2013 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Maxine went from #401 to #894 and Diane from #225 to #747.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1954 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #97 in New South Wales, Australia in 1954. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Maxine

Maxine at a glance

What stands out in Maxine's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Maxine across 2 official records

Maxine by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Maxine appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Maxine at a glance

What stands out in Maxine's record

Maxine across 2 official records

Maxine by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Maxine appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Maxine

Maxine and the names beside it

Maxine moved ahead of

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