Maksims

Spellings & scripts●

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●

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Maksims is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Serbian given name47 records spelled Maksims7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Latvia

  Languages: Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian

  Also written Максимс

25 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Maksims 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.

• In Latvian, Balsta ložmetēja tips; bija izplatīts 20. gs. pirmajā pusē

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

• In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

• In Latvian, Maksimums

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 10 years between 2011–2020. 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. 1894RUnot in their usual nameSoviet 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. 1978UZnot in their usual nameUzbekistani footballer
• Maksim Matveyevb. 1982RUnot in their usual nameRussian film and theater actor (born 1982)
• MakSimb. 1983RUnot in their usual nameRussian 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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 42 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Maksims?

We estimate roughly 580 thousand people bear Maksims (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.

In which country does Maksims have the most bearers?

Maksims is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled максим.

How common is Maksims compared with other names?

In Russia, Maksims is the 29th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.

Is Maksims a male or female name?

Maksims 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 Maksims mean?

Recorded meaning: a male given name from Latin of Latvian speakers