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Maxie

Maxie: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“greatest”
Origin
English
Say it
MAK-see · 2 syllables
Used for
Both (46% girls, 54% boys since 1880)

Diminutive of Max, Maxwell, Maximilian, or related names ultimately linked with Latin Maximus “greatest.” It is also used as an independent given name.

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How popular is Maxie?

20246.0 per million US babies
1880192019602000
Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Maxie in 202420

Peak year1910

Total US babies since 18808,648

Maxie is rising: use over the last five years is 1.7× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Maxie

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

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Maxie questions

What does the name Maxie mean?

Maxie means "greatest". It comes from English. Diminutive of Max, Maxwell, Maximilian, or related names ultimately linked with Latin Maximus “greatest.” It is also used as an independent given name.

Is Maxie a boy or girl name?

Maxie is used for both: about 46% of US babies named Maxie since 1880 were girls.

How popular is Maxie?

20 US babies were named Maxie in 2024. Its peak year was 1910.

How do you pronounce Maxie?

Maxie is usually pronounced MAK-see.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.