Maximo

What Maximo means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Maximo yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Up from #853 in 2015 to #580 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Maximo?

US: Rising: up from #853 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #2707 in 2015, #2440 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 506 boys got the name (#580 that year). First in the US records in 1903.

How common

• About 1 in 3,376 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 30,215 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 6,547 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NM (0.77 per 1,000 boys), UT (0.76 per 1,000 boys), NV (0.71 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Maximo is #580 in the US and #2440 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Maximo were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

If you like Maximo

Boys

• Luca#14Form of Lucy, meaning “light”^*
• Alessandro#497Italian form of Alexander, meaning “to defend + man”^*
• Enzo#72“home + ruler”^*
• Leonardo#91Italian, from Old French Leonard, meaning “as strong as a lion”^*
• Franco#746Editor’s note Up from #873 in 2015 to #746 in 2025 in the US
• Joaquin#355Spanish form of Joachim, meaning “may Yahweh raise up”^*

For a sister

• Luciana#273Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #273 vs #1,809 in 2025
• Gia#287Editor’s note Up from #372 in 2015 to #287 in 2025 in the US
• Valentina#35Same root as Valentine, meaning “strong, healthy”^*
• Ximena#183Basque, meaning “son”^*
• Lola#275Editor’s note Down from #224 in 2015 to #275 in 2025 in the US
• Bella#136Form of Isabel, meaning “my God is an oath”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Spanish & Italian, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Maximo’s. Rank is US 2025.