Max

Borrowed from the German Max, diminutive of Maximilian in the 19th century, later also used as a nickname for Maxwell.

• IPA^(key): /mæks/
• Rhymes: -æks

Max

1. A male given name from Latin.
   • 2002, Cynthia Heimel, If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 177:

     Since it seems to me that this fad of child-rearing has turned into an actual trend, that babies are an increasingly popular accessory for people-on-the-go, I first want to say to stop naming your boys Max. Max is a perfectly nice name, ensuring its owner a certain precocious sensibility, but there are enough Maxes now. Any more Maxes and the breed will go to the dogs.

   • 2015, Max:

     Kyle: Okay, Max. Search.

2. A diminutive of the male given names Maximilian or Maxwell.
3. A diminutive of the female given name Maxine.

• (male given name): female form: Maxine

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Max

1. a male given name borrowed from German

Borrowed from German Max. Equivalent to a shortening of Maximiliaan.

• IPA^(key): /mɑks/

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• Hyphenation: Max
• Rhymes: -ɑks

Max m

1. a male given name

From German Max.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑks/, [ˈmɑ̝ks̠]
• Rhymes: -ɑks

Max

1. a male given name

• Max is the 139^th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 4,462 male individuals (and as a middle name to 802 more), and also belongs to 18 female individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

Clipping of Maxime, Maximilien, Maxence.

• IPA^(key): /maks/

Max m

1. a male given name
2. a diminutive of the male given names Maxime, Maximilien, or Maxence

• IPA^(key): [maks]

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Max

1. an a popular diminutive of the male given name Maximilian

• Mäxchen

• Hans
• Fritz
• Hinz
• Kunz
• Petz
• Lutz

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɒks]
• Rhymes: -ɒks

Max

1. Max

From German Max. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1825.

• Homophones: macks, max

Max c (genitive Max)

1. a male given name
   • 1975, Christer Kihlman, Dyre prins, Wahlström & Widstrand, →ISBN, page 113:

     Som liten var jag ganska stolt över mitt namn. Donald! Det klingade minsann mäktigare det än både Kalle och Ville och Lasse. Senare, när jag upphöjt mig själv i borgarståndet och för säkerhets skull beseglat min borgerlighet genom äktenskapet med Gunnel Lindermann hade jag uppriktigt sagt gärna hetat nånting annat, nånting mera traditionellt ståndsmässigt, eller från den synpunkten konventionellare, som Johan eller Henrik eller Carl-Gustaf. Till och med Max och Moritz och Niklas hade gått an. Bara inte Donald.

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