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Maxine

Pronounced /mækˈsiːn/

Rank in 2024
#521
Born in 2024
591
Peak year
1924 · #77
Origin
Latin

1880 to 2024

Rising
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 591 girls were named Maxine, about 1 in every 2,730.
  • It peaked in 1924 with 3,659 babies, ranked #77.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1884.
  • 115,010 girls have been named Maxine since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Maxine per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 2.3
    Greatest
  2. 1.8
    Silent
  3. 0.5
    Boomers
  4. 0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. 0.2
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 46,766 babies, 2.28 per 1,000. Silent: 36,686 babies, 1.78 per 1,000. Boomers: 18,457 babies, 0.52 per 1,000. Gen X: 3,223 babies, 0.13 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,598 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,612 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 4,406 babies, 0.22 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Max +‎ -ine. An English feminine form of Max coined at the end of the nineteenth century. Piecewise doublet of Maxina.

  • A female given name from Latin.
Origin
Latin
Say it
/mækˈsiːn/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Maxine, CC BY-SA 4.0.