Massimo

Spellings & scripts●

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 19 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◐

Massimo is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name68K records spelled Massimo7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, United States, Germany, Australia

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Mássimo, Màssîmô

• a separate given name2.4K records spelled Massimo2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

  Also written Mássimo

• Finnish given name1.6K records spelled Massimo4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, Finland, Slovenia, Hungary

  Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

  Also written Mąšşǐmǒ

• Thai given name806 records spelled Massimo6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, Thailand, Laos, Switzerland

  Languages: Thai, Lao

  Also written มัสซิโม, มัสซิโม่, มัสซีโม่, Mássimo

37 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●

Massimo 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 Italian, maximum

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Italian, Lat. Maximus, 'il più grande'; nome popolare e ridotto in varie forme familiari.

  as a name·Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

• In Italian, Dal latino Maximus, 'grandissimo'.

  as a name·Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

• In Italian, forma italiana de Maximus

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• In Swedish, Se Maximus.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 59 years between 1963–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Massimo d'Azegliob. 1798ITItalian statesman, novelist and painter (1798–1866)
• Massimo Dallamanob. 1917ITItalian director, cinematographer and screenwriter (1917–1976)
• Massimo Girottib. 1918ITItalian actor (1918-2003)
• Massimo D'Alemab. 1949ITItalian politician (born 1949)
• Massimo Troisib. 1953ITItalian actor, film director, and poet (1953–1994)
• Massimo Ghinib. 1954ITItalian film actor (born 1954)
• Massimo Gaudiosob. 1958ITItalian film director, screenwriter and actor
• Massimo Busaccab. 1969CHFootball referee
• Massimo Ambrosinib. 1977ITItalian association football player
• Massimo Stanob. 1992ITItalian racewalker

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 · 572 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Massimo?

We estimate roughly 29 thousand people bear Massimo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Massimo have the most bearers?

Massimo is most frequently recorded in Italy, where it is most often spelled massimo.

How common is Massimo compared with other names?

In Italy, Massimo is the 37th most common given name of 102,519 given names recorded there.

Is Massimo a male or female name?

Massimo 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 Massimo mean?

Recorded meaning: from the personal name Massimo, (Latin Maximus ‘greatest’, superlative of magnus ‘great’; compare Magnus), borne by a number of minor early Christian saints.