Máxime

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Máxime is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 30th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Latin maximus ‘greatest’. Mélanie 2 From Greek. See )Melanie in main dictionary. Máxime is also written Максим in Cyrillic, Մաքսիմ in Armenian and แม็กซิม in Thai.

  • FRFrance≈1 in 350(inferred from the name graph)
  • BEBelgium≈1 in 540
  • CHSwitzerland≈1 in 1.8K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Máxime itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Russia (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,600,000 named Максим, est.

#72 (measured from records)

of 15M given names, spellings grouped

7 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
431 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 352 (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Máxime in other scripts: Cyrillic, Armenian, Thai and 3 more

(measured from records)
MáximeLatin(measured from records)
МаксимMáxime in Cyrillic(measured from records)
ՄաքսիմMáxime in Armenian(measured from records)
แม็กซิมMáxime in Thai(measured from records)
막심Máxime in Korean (Hangul)(measured from records)
ΜαξιμMáxime in Greek(measured from records)
მაქსიმMáxime in Georgian(measured from records)

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Максим in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus, Maxime in FR France, Maksym in PL Poland and Maxim in MD Moldova.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

From Latin maximus ‘greatest’. Mélanie 2 From Greek. See )Melanie in main dictionary.

Cited for this meaning 4

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • A dictionary of surnames
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Máxime counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Máxime is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#30≈1,600,000 est.≈1 in 92register #17Максим245
UA Ukraine#43≈220,000 est.≈1 in 174listedМаксим162
FR France#46≈190,000 est.≈1 in 352224KMaxime431
BY Belarus#25≈98,000 est.≈1 in 93102Максим81
PL Poland#48456,052as Maksym1 in 68356KMaksym115
MD Moldova#30131,953as Maxim1 in 10532KMaxim48

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); e-services.md — living population register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Máxime under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Máxime mean, and where does it come from?
From Latin maximus ‘greatest’. Mélanie 2 From Greek. See )Melanie in main dictionary. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 2 other sources.
Is Máxime a male or female name?
Máxime is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
Which countries have the most people named Máxime?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 million people named Максим in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Ukraine, France, Belarus and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Máxime?
In Poland, the national register counted 56,052 people named Maksym in 2026, about 1 in 683 residents.
How common is Máxime compared with other names?
In Russia, Máxime is the 30th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Máxime” — the 30th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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