Maxime
Give it and you join a small crowd: just over 400 Poles carry it, almost all men, and hardly anyone had used it lately. Now it's being given again, a Latin name reaching Poland through French with the plain sense of "greatest".
Maxime Pronunciation
What Maxime means
Where Maxime comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Maxime comes from the Latin maximus, the superlative of magnus, "great." The meaning is a superlative. So the name says, plainly, the greatest. Latin handed the word to French, which turned an adjective into a name for a person.
French has kept Maxime for a long time. Maxime Weygand, the general born in Brussels in 1867, wore it through two world wars and lived to ninety-eight. The name reaches further back to early bishops recorded in Latin as Maximus, before French softened the ending into Maxime.
For a Polish family the pull is easy to name. Maxime reads as French, and its sense, największy, needs no translation. On a Polish class register the name would stand out as visibly foreign. The superlative built into it does the rest: greatest, with no comparison left to make.
How many people are named Maxime
1 in 53365 men in Poland is named Maxime. 410 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1465 among male names.
Maxime's popularity over time
6 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #877 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Where Maxime is most popular
Maxime is most popular in West Pomeranian, 1180% above the national average (2 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+588%).
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West Pomeranian2 boys born+1180%
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Lower Silesian2 boys born+588%
Maxime as a middle name
Maxime is a first name for 410 men in Poland and a middle name for another 71, an 85/15 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 857th, between Jon (71) and Boris (70).
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#855 Eustachiusz71
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#856 Jon71
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#857 Maxime71
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#858 Boris70
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#859 Grant70