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Massimo

#938 in 2025Boys' name

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Massimo has been given to 4,026 babies in the U.S. since 1963. In 2025 it ranked #938 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 289 recorded.

Babies named Massimo, 2025

1 in 13,200

Massimo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Massimo: meaning, origin, and history

Greatest

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Massimo means

Massimo means “greatest”, associated with maximus.

Origin, language, and formation

Massimo is used in Italian.

Massimo comes through Latin Maximus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Massimo is pronounced /ˈmas.si.mo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,026 boys were recorded with the name Massimo between 1963 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 289 in 2023; its best national rank was #844 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,381 in 2020 to #938 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,377 in 2015 to #938 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Massimo?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 13,200
251 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 6,800
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#938
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
9,156 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Massimo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5004%

Put another way: gather 9,156 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Massimo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Massimos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Massimo was born before 2014 — so the typical Massimo is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
33.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,026
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2020s — 33.3% of all recorded uses (1,340).

Is Massimo rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−51
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+443
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+439
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.99×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
86.9%
Peak was 2023 (289)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#844
2023

Spellings of Massimo

Massimo is not the most common spelling — Maximo is, with 53.1% against Massimo's 23.2%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Massimo is used

Across 2016–2025, Massimo was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 3,333 boys, against 1 in 7,854 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

130 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 3,333
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 3,448
  3. 3New York1 in 3,704
  4. 4Illinois1 in 4,762
  5. 5Connecticut1 in 5,000
  6. 6California1 in 7,692
  7. 7Colorado1 in 10,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 11,111

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Massimo around the world

Where Massimo ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,066
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1978–2024
    #727
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2023–2023
    #770
    in 2023
  • France
    1952–2025
    #822
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #503
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1956–2013
    #218
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Massimo

People whose public names include Massimo, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Massimo in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Massimo. Linked forms have their own page here.

MaximMaksimMaksymMaximeMossimoMàximMáximoMassenzio

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Massimo by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#938
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 443
Best rank ever
#844
2023
Peak year
2023
289 that year
First recorded
1963
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,026
Count in 2025
251

Names similar to Massimo

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Massimo

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Massimo, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

BeckJahmirNazirZyonOsmanIsaelGianJosiasAymanOzielKyrenTylan

Sibling names for Massimo

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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