Maxine

What Maxine means

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

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,106 in 2015, #496 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Maxine?

US: Rising: up from #1106 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #1961 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1923, when 3,603 girls got the name (#76 that year). First in the US records in 1884.

How common

• About 1 in 2,692 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 14,899 baby girls in England and Wales 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 HI (2.8 per 1,000 girls), OR (1.0 per 1,000 girls), ID (0.98 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Maxine is #496 in the US and #1719 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Maxine were girls.

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

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Maxxine12 US
• Maxene8 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Maxine

Girls

• Florence#391“flowering, flourishing”^*
• Rosemary#251“dew of the sea”^*
• Rosalia#608Same root as Rosalie, meaning “rose”^*
• Loretta#606Diminutive of Laura, meaning “laurel tree”^*
• Flora#607Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,337 in 2015, #607 in 2025
• Aura#817“breeze”^*

For a brother

• Leon#138“lion”^*
• Theodore#4Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #99 in 2015, #4 in 2025
• Augustine#545Same root as Austin, meaning “majestic”^*
• Felix#175“happy, lucky”^*
• Lionel#659“lion”^*
• August#81“month of August”^*

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