Girl
Maxine
As a girl's name, Maxine is understood to mean "Feminine of Max/Maximus". It had its heyday in the 1920s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. Since 1900, roughly 112,067 babies in the U.S. have been given this name.
EtymologyFeminine of Max/Maximus
LatinLatin – "greatest"
Births by decade
1900s
1,409
1910s
17,854
1920s
33,873
1930s
20,593
1940s
16,132
1950s
9,748
1960s
4,314
1970s
1,542
1980s
1,357
1990s
1,881
2000s
1,566
2010s
1,798
Peaked in the 1920s · 112,067 total U.S. births since 1900