Maxine
A girls’ name of Latin origin, meaning greatest; feminine form of Maximus.
How Maxine has moved
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| Year | US rank |
|---|---|
| 2016 | #901 |
| 2017 | #880 |
| 2018 | #851 |
| 2019 | #796 |
| 2020 | #740 |
| 2021 | #703 |
| 2022 | #614 |
| 2023 | #513 |
| 2024 | #520 |
| 2025 | #497 |
Maxine by the numbers
In 2025, 17 babies in England and Wales were named Maxine. In the US, 309 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 3,659 babies in 1924, so it is a 1920s name that has since fallen a long way.
At its height, in 1920, about 1 in 350 American girls born that year was called Maxine.
Other names that come from Maximus
Like Maxine, each of these traces back to Maximus: a form of it, a name built from it, or a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
- Maxgreatest; diminutive of Maximus1,061 in England and Wales (2025)
- Maximusgreatest or largest1,951 in the US (2017)
- Macsengreat; a form of Maximus141 in England and Wales (2025)
- Maksimgreatest; form of Maximus139 in the US (2017)
- Maxongreatest; a form of Maximus95 in the US (2017)
- Maxsonson of Maximus; the greatest one55 in the US (2017)
- Maximethe greatest; a form of Maximus15 in England and Wales (2025)
- Maximinothe greatest; a form of Maximus25 in the US (2017)
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Maxine. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Maxiethe greatest; diminutive of maxim or maxwell3 in England and Wales (2025)
- Maxenegreatest; a form of Maxine5 in the US (2017)
- Marieof the sea; beloved; form of Mary453 in the US (2017)
- Marinaof the sea68 in England and Wales (2025)
- Maitebeloved; from maite152 in the US (2017)
- Malinaraspberry or small strong warrior133 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Maxine
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