Maksymiliana
The feminine form of Maksymilian, from the Latin for "greatest". Only about a hundred women in Poland carry it, and today it goes to almost no one.
Maksymiliana Pronunciation
Maksymiliana is pronounced mahk-sih-meel-YAH-nah (/maksɨmilˈjana/).
What Maksymiliana means
Where Maksymiliana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Maksymiliana comes from Latin. Behind it stands Maximilianus, a Roman family name built on maximus, meaning "greatest." Polish renders that sense as największa. The name reaches Polish through its masculine twin, Maksymilian, and Maksymiliana is the feminine form of it.
The root shows up in ordinary Polish words like maksimum, so the meaning stays close to the surface. A child named Maksymiliana wears a superlative for a name. That is a large thing to answer to.
The form stays uncommon. On a school dziennik it would sit apart, four syllables where most names hold two or three. A teacher reading the register slows at it. The full Maksymiliana rarely shortens, though Maks can serve, borrowed from the masculine side. What the name means has not drifted. Maximus meant greatest to the Romans, and największa says the same in Polish today.
When Maksymiliana celebrates name day
Maksymiliana appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 12 October.
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 Maksymiliana
1 in 223206 women in Poland is named Maksymiliana. 101 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3432 among female names.
Maksymiliana as a middle name
Maksymiliana is a first name for 101 women in Poland and a middle name for another 91, a 53/47 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 703rd, between Lydia (91) and Devi (90).
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#701 Ina91
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#702 Lydia91
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#703 Maksymiliana91
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#704 Devi90
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#705 Dina90