Maximo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from the personal name Maximo (Latin Maximus ‘greatest’, superlative of magnus ‘great’), home by a number of early Christian saints
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/maksimo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maximo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country. In the Dominican Republic it is the 35th most common given name.
- PEPeru≈1 in 614(inferred from the name graph)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 776
- ARArgentina≈1 in 1.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 291 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 614 (inferred from the name graph)
≈52,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the personal name Maximo (Latin Maximus ‘greatest’, superlative of magnus ‘great’), home by a number of early Christian saints.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maximo 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #137 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 614 | — | Maximo | 84 |
| PH Philippines | #580 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | listed | Maximo | 58 |
| AR Argentina | #332 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 1.5K | Maximo | 121 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #35 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 776 | — | Maximo | 56 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 10,645 | 1 in 1.6K | 11K | Maximo | 34 |
| PY Paraguay | #286 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Maximo | 19 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 4,249 | 1 in 797 | 4.2K | — | 46 |
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: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Maximo is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
From Latin maximus ‘greatest’,
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Latin, dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of maximus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Interlingua, maximum
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Maximus I of Constantinopleb. 350EGnot in their usual namearchbishop of Constantinople in 380
- Máximo Gómez Báezb. 1836DOCuban-dominican Major General (1836-1905)
- Ángel Sanz Brizb. 1910ESnot in their usual nameSpanish diplomat (1910-1980)
- Max Manusb. 1914NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian resistance fighter during the Second World War, author and business manager (1914–1996)
- Max Laurelb. 1945PHnot in their usual nameFilipino actor
- Juan Reynosob. 1969PEnot in their usual namePeruvian former soccer player and coach
- Máximo Kirchnerb. 1977ARArgentine politician
- Máximo Gonzálezb. 1983ARArgentine tennis player (born 1983)
- Máximo Banguerab. 1985ECEcuadorian footballer
- Máximo Perroneb. 2003ARArgentinian football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 73 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 11K | #190 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 4.2K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 4.2K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 1.5K | #103 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 846 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 844 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 27 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Maximo mean, and where does it come from?
- from the personal name Maximo (Latin Maximus ‘greatest’, superlative of magnus ‘great’), home by a number of early Christian saints. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Is Maximo a male or female name?
- Maximo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How do you pronounce Maximo?
- A machine transcription gives /maksimo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Maximo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 52 thousand people named Maximo in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maximo.
- How common is the name Maximo?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 10,645 people named Maximo in 2024, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Maximo compared with other names?
- In Peru, Maximo is the 137th most common given name of 254,284 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Maximo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maximoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Maximo” — the 137th most common given name in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.