Entry № 6634 · Latin origin

Maxima Maxima — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAHK-see-mah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Greatest"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "greatest".

Maxima is the Latin feminine of Maximus — meaning "greatest."

Queen Máxima of the Netherlands (born 1971), born Máxima Zorreguieta in Argentina, is the wife of King Willem-Alexander.

Greatest. The Argentine-Dutch queen.

The name in its native script.

Maxima
Transliteration
Maxima
Pronunciation
/ ˈmæk.sɪ.mə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Maxima stands.

Maxima does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Maximas before her.

Real people
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands
Dutch queen consort.
born 1971
In fiction
Maxima
Common in Latin fiction.

Names connected to Maxima.

The number behind Maxima.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Maxima reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.