Maksim
given name · Russian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Maksim is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 29th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Russian and Polish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: "great".
- BYBelarus1 in 98◐
- RURussia1 in 109
- UAUkraine1 in 164
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈580K ●
- #129 ●
- 7 ●
- Sources
- 503 ●
- 1 in 105 ◐
across 15 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
7.8M records
Official registry-verified
Moldova
Spellings & scripts●
3 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Max in US United States, DE Germany, NL Netherlands and 11 more, Максим in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 6 more, Maxime in FR France, BE Belgium and Maksym in PL Poland, ES Spain.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
"great."
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #29 | 9,471,104 | 4M rec. | — | #17 | Максим | 221 |
| UA Ukraine | #44 | 1,922,050 | 1.9M rec. | — | listed | Максим | 141 |
| FR France | #60 | 224,115 | 582K rec. | 1 in 303 | 224K | Maxime | 414 |
| DE Germany | #130 | 197,031 | 174K rec. | — | 1 | Max | 269 |
| US United States | #505 | 132,923 | 778K rec. | 1 in 2.5K | 133K | Max | 503 |
| TR Türkiye | #657 | 129,889 | 3.7K rec. | — | — | Максим | 34 |
| AU Australia | #211 | 105,143 | 50K rec. | — | 594 | Max | 253 |
| GB United Kingdom | #368 | 77,312 | 48K rec. | — | 1.1K | Max | 243 |
| PL Poland | #164 | 56,024△ | 8K rec. | 1 in 683 | 56K | Maksym | 112 |
| CA Canada | #247 | 52,858 | 33K rec. | — | 47 | Max | 203 |
| BY Belarus | #23 | 43,618 | 20K rec. | — | 102 | Максим | 74 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #60 | 38,055 | 58K rec. | 1 in 502 | 38K | Максим | 72 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Russian168K56%
- Polish33K11%
- English27K9%
- Estonian7K2%
- Finnish6.3K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Russian | 168,308 | 56% |
| Polish | 33,344 | 11% |
| English | 27,210 | 9% |
| Estonian | 7,020 | 2% |
| Finnish | 6,275 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Maksim is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Russian; the greatest
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
From Latin Maximus ‘greatest’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In German, männl. Vom., russische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Russian, de maximus, le plus grand.
as a nameRussian Names
In Serbo-Croatian, ime vlastito
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1993 | 6 |
| 1994 | 8 |
| 1995 | 7 |
| 1996 | 6 |
| 1997 | 6 |
| 1998 | 16 |
| 1999 | 12 |
| 2000 | 24 |
| 2001 | 20 |
| 2002 | 28 |
| 2003 | 38 |
| 2004 | 44 |
| 2005 | 46 |
| 2006 | 61 |
| 2007 | 107 |
| 2008 | 134 |
| 2009 | 160 |
| 2010 | 178 |
| 2011 | 204 |
| 2012 | 161 |
| 2013 | 153 |
| 2014 | 131 |
| 2015 | 158 |
| 2016 | 144 |
| 2017 | 139 |
| 2018 | 125 |
| 2019 | 101 |
| 2020 | 80 |
| 2021 | 85 |
| 2022 | 83 |
| 2023 | 76 |
| 2024 | 82 |
| 2025 | 55 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 33 years between 1993–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Maxim Litvinovb. 1876RUnot in their usual nameSoviet diplomat and foreign minister (1876–1951)
- Maksim Purkayevb. 1894RUSoviet general (1894–1953)
- Maksym Rylskyb. 1895UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian poet (1895–1964)
- Maxim Shostakovichb. 1938RUnot in their usual nameSoviet, American and Russian conductor and pianist
- Maxim Kontsevichb. 1964RUnot in their usual nameRussian-born French mathematician and Fields Medallist
- Maxim Vengerovb. 1974DEnot in their usual nameRussian violinist, violist, and conductor
- Max Mirnyib. 1977BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian tennis player
- Maksim Shatskikhb. 1978UZUzbekistani footballer
- Maksim Matveyevb. 1982RURussian film and theater actor (born 1982)
- MakSimb. 1983RURussian singer
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 74 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 8.3K | #191 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7.9K | #192 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.2K | #4,466 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.8K | #1,108 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.2K | #2,540 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 1.2K | #407 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 978 | #1,673 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 602 | #1,838 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 490 | #610 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 473 | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 451 | #324 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 443 | #3,021 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 506 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Maksim?
- We estimate roughly 580 thousand people bear Maksim (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
- In which country does Maksim have the most bearers?
- Maksim is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled максим.
- How common is Maksim compared with other names?
- In Russia, Maksim is the 29th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
- Is Maksim a male or female name?
- Maksim 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.
- What does the name Maksim mean?
- Recorded meaning: "great."
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Maksim” — the 29th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.