Maxine

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Maxine is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. In Jamaica it is the 24th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Modern coinage, first recorded around 1930.

rarermore common
  • JMJamaica1 in 2.3K◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 3.5K
  • NZNew Zealand1 in 3.8K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈49K ●

across 7 countries

Sources
397 ●

820K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 3.4K ◐

Guyana

Meaning & origin●

Modern coinage, first recorded around 1930. It is a derivative of }Max by addition of the feminine ending -ine. MEICAL

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Maxine is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#42959,82251K rec.—3Maxine196
US United States#55343,044667K rec.1 in 7.7K43KMaxine397
AU Australia#54426,41323K rec.—74Maxine170
CA Canada#58117,06615K rec.—14Maxine139
IT Italy#9344,9084.9K rec.—1Maxine20
FR France—4,775△2 rec.1 in 14K4.8K—2
DE Germany—4,2604K rec.——Maxine89
PH Philippines—3,9882.5K rec.——Maxine71
NZ New Zealand#2202,2501.8K rec.—13Maxine68
SG Singapore#2872,1282.2K rec.——Maxine40
JM Jamaica#242,0912.1K rec.——Maxine18
RU Russia—2,0692.1K rec.——Maxine14

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Languages●

  • English803K81%
  • French37K4%
  • Spanish30K3%
  • 25K3%
  • German12K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English802,54381%
French36,8524%
Spanish29,6883%
24,8543%
German11,8461%

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◐

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

  • French given name84K records spelled Maxine10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Brazil, United Kingdom

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Maxiné, Máxine, Mäxinë, Mãxíñé

  • Polish given name4.8K records spelled Maxine16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Махине, Максын

  • Greek given name1.6K records spelled Maxine3 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Maxin, Μαξιν

  • Korean given name1.2K records spelled Maxine2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Korea, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written 맥신

54 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●

Maxine 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.

  • Feminine form of max. Mechthild(e) 2 Variant of MarHitDE.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In English, feminine of Max; greatest

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In German, weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • English: modern coinage, first recorded around 1930; a derivative of MAX by addition of the feminine ending - ine .

    as a word

  • In Asturian, first-person singular present subjunctive of maxinar

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

01K2K3K4K1900195020003.7K · 1924

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Maxine in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1884–2025
Yearrecords
18848
18856
18887
189011
18917
18928
189317
189413
189512
189614
189726
189831
189934
190068
190146
190262
190370
190484
1905135
1906173
1907219
1908220
1909332
1910397
1911531
1912823
19131,073
19141,396
19152,110
19162,424
19172,647
19183,216
19193,183
19203,507
19213,630
19223,444
19233,603
19243,659
19253,538
19263,150
19273,094
19283,124
19292,994
19302,700
19312,392
19322,223
19332,061
19342,018
19351,926
19361,828
19371,730
19381,824
19391,774
19401,785
19411,750
19421,750
19431,754
19441,603
19451,449
19461,544
19471,584
19481,522
19491,329
19501,254
19511,247
19521,160
19531,172
1954989
1955870
1956892
1957773
1958687
1959698
1960592
1961628
1962572
1963499
1964446
1965424
1966366
1967288
1968257
1969237
1970262
1971197
1972163
1973162
1974132
1975128
1976114
1977120
1978143
1979120
1980110
1981121
1982115
1983110
1984119
1985133
1986125
1987157
1988194
1989173
1990173
1991200
1992196
1993200
1994206
1995181
1996195
1997182
1998187
1999165
2000178
2001206
2002183
2003166
2004150
2005139
2006129
2007138
2008142
2009139
2010161
2011159
2012188
2013238
2014204
2015234
2016309
2017311
2018319
2019347
2020370
2021410
2022483
2023591
2024595
2025597

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 139 years between 1884–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19001920194019601980Maxine Sullivan, b. 1911Joan Copeland, b. 1922Maxine Audley, b. 1923Maxine Kumin, b. 1925Maxine Singer, b. 1931Maxine Waters, b. 1938Helen Reddy, b. 1941Irene Pepperberg, b. 1949Maxine Nightingale, b. 1952Maxine Peake, b. 1974
  • Maxine Sullivanb. 1911USAmerican blues and jazz singer (1911-1987)
  • Joan Copelandb. 1922USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1922–2022)
  • Maxine Audleyb. 1923GBBritish actress (1923-1992)
  • Maxine Kuminb. 1925USAmerican poet and author (1925-2014)
  • Maxine Singerb. 1931USAmerican molecular biologist (1931–2024)
  • Maxine Watersb. 1938USUnited States Representative from California since 1991
  • Helen Reddyb. 1941AUnot in their usual nameAustralian and American singer and actress (1941–2020)
  • Irene Pepperbergb. 1949USnot in their usual namescientist noted for her studies in animal cognition
  • Maxine Nightingaleb. 1952GBBritish R&B and soul music singer (born 1952)
  • Maxine Peakeb. 1974GBBritish actress

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 69 sources across 41 countries.

Official registers attesting Maxine
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202043K#996
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20244.8K#121
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—623#1,775
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025597—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—515#2,716
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—387#3,771
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020251—
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025218#380
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—178#5,222
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022162—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020160#996
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—148#29,495

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 · 641 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Maxine?
We estimate roughly 49 thousand people bear Maxine (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Maxine have the most bearers?
Maxine is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled maxine.
How common is Maxine compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Maxine is the 429th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
Is Maxine a male or female name?
Maxine is a female 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 Maxine mean?
Recorded meaning: Modern coinage, first recorded around 1930.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Maxine” — the 429th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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