Máximo

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Máximo

Say it: MAHK-see-moh

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Meaning

Latin maximus 'greatest'.

Certainscholars agree on this meaning.

Its wave through time

Popular now

In the United States

6,959 babies given this name since 1903
At its height in 2020, about 1 in 5,400 boys
318 babies in 2020

Through the ages

Used by

Caribbean Argentine Spanish

The family of the name

Portuguese	Máximo
Italian	Massimo

Famous bearers

Máximo Gómez, general of Cuban independence

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MaxBoyA short form of Maximilian or Maxwell; Maximilian is from Latin maximus 'greatest'.Victorian · peak 2011

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Where this comes from

Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.

Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.