Maximo is a Louisiana Creole name that was derived from Latin Maximus meaning ‘the greatest’. Louisiana Creole is a French-based language that developed in the 18th century, when Louisiana was a French colony.
Maximo is a male first name.
The name Maximo isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Maximo ranks 739. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Maximo. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Maximo.
Maximo is a Louisiana Creole name that was derived from Latin Maximus meaning ‘the greatest’. Louisiana Creole is a French-based language that developed in the 18th century, when Louisiana was a French colony.
Today, this language is... spoken by less than 10,000 people. Most of the Louisiana Creole people speak French or English in everyday life.
You may not know anyone named Maximo, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 27 states are home to men and boys named Maximo. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Maximo living in one state or another. If your name is Maximo and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Texas, which has the most people named Maximo relative to the population, you still have to ask 7,336 men and boys their names before you hear Maximo as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names – 6.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J and A.
With six letters, the name Maximo is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.2% of all boys' names that begin with an M, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which boys’ name with M is the most common... the answer is Michael.
If your name is Maximo and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Maximo, you can simply say:
Mouse
Apple
Xylophone
Igloo
Mouse
Orange
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Maximo
Maximo
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
A
X
I
M
O
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
M
A
X
I
M
O
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Maximo sounds like this:
