Maksymina
Just two women in Poland carry this name: most Poles will never meet a Maksymina. It's a Latin name at root, the feminine of Maksymin, from a word meaning "greatest".
Maksymina Pronunciation
Maksymina is pronounced mahk-sih-MEE-nah (/maksɨˈmina/).
What Maksymina means
Where Maksymina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Maksymina comes from Latin. It is the feminine form of Maksymin, and both go back to Maximinus, a Roman name built on Maximus. The Latin root means "greatest," which Polish renders as największy. The same root sits inside the ordinary word "maximum."
Maximus and its offshoots ran through Roman families for generations. Maximinus Thrax ruled as emperor from 235 to 238, and later the name passed to saints. Maksymin, the masculine variant, carried that line into Polish. Maksymina stands beside it as the feminine form, rarer and heavier on the tongue.
Few children carry it now. On a name-day form at the urząd, it would ask the clerk to slow down and read twice.
The diminutive strips all that away. Maks. One syllable, quick to shout, easy to answer to. The full form means największy; the short form is simply Maks.
When Maksymina celebrates name day
Maksymina appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 29 May.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Maksymina
1 in 11271917 women in Poland is named Maksymina. 2 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #54970 among female names.