Name Awesome

Maxima

#8,679 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Maximus

Maxima has been given to 186 babies in the U.S. since 1919. In 2025 it ranked #8,679 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Maxima, 2025

1 in 276,000

Maxima over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maxima: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Maximus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maxima means

Maxima is a feminine form of Maximus.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Maxima → Maximus. The family’s meaning is “greatest”, recorded in the naming reference for Maximus.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Learned borrowing from Latin Maxima, feminine of Maximus.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Maxima (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Maxima is used in English.

Maxima comes through Latin Maxima.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maximus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 186 girls were recorded with the name Maxima between 1919 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2018; its best national rank was #4,184 in 1931.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,759 in 2020 to #8,679 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,765 in 2015 to #8,679 in 2025.

How common is Maxima?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,679
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maxima sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maxima. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maximas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maxima was born before 2018 — so the typical Maxima is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
158
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 42.5% of all recorded uses (79).

Is Maxima 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
−851
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+80
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+86
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
0.92×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
85.7%
Peak was 2018 (14)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,184
1931

Spellings of Maxima

Maxima is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 60.9% against Maxima's 0.02%.

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 Maxima is used

Across 1910–2025, Maxima was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,829,369 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Maxima has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maxima around the world

Where Maxima 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
    2012–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    1900–2024
    #6,321
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2017–2017
    #3,407
    in 2017

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Maxima by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,679
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 80
Best rank ever
#4,184
1931
Peak year
2018
14 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
186
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Maxima

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

MaxeneFahimaRahimaTemimaShaimaCosimaUmaimaFotimaMaxyneMaxxMaxxineMaxwellMahimaMuslimaMaxlynnAaimaNyimaSalimaSelimaMaximeNakimaZaimaKalimaLima

Sibling names for Maxima

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

Explore around Maxima

Top names of 2018, Maxima's peak yearThe 2010s in fullOther names that peaked in 1931Girls' names starting with M