Maxine derived from the Latin name Maxima, which is the feminine form of Maximus meaning ‘the greatest’. Originally, this was a family name. Various names like Max or [Maxwell] are based on Maximus.
Maxine is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Maxine 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 girls names, Maxine ranks 809. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Maxine. In the entire USA, approximately 107,851 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Maxine. That is 0.03 % of all living Americans.
#74 - this is the highest position Maxine has ever reached. Most names never manage to reach such high popularity in even one of the 143 years of records.The last time Maxine reached this top position was in the last century, in 1921, when 3,644 newborn girls were named Maxine. But as our statistics show, Maxine has not always been a popular name: in some years of records, lastly in the year 1889, it was either not given to newborns at all or less than 5 times (a name is only included in the official statistics if it is given at least 5 times in a year). Even today it's not at the peak of its popularity, nevertheless Maxine is still the first choice of some parents every year as the most beautiful first name for their newborn daughter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Maxine was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 481 newborns were given the name Maxine, making them rank #558. Although the name Maxine was more popular in the last century than it is today, it is still common and for some parents it is the name of choice for their daughter. So the chances of an encounter with a young Maxine are still there in our contemporary times.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With six letters, the name Maxine 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.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Maxine 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 Maxine, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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.
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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. Maxine sounds like this:
