Maxine

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Feminine form of MAX. It has been commonly used only since the beginning of the 20th century.

MAX   male   German, English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch
Short form of MAXIMILIAN (or sometimes of MAXWELL in English).
MAXIMILIAN   male   German, English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
From the Roman name Maximilianus, which was derived from MAXIMUS. It was borne by a 3rd-century saint and martyr. In the 15th century the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III gave this name to his son and eventual heir. In this case it was a blend of the names of the Roman generals Fabius Maximus and Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus (see EMILIANO), who Frederick admired. It was subsequently borne by a second Holy Roman Emperor, two kings of Bavaria, and a short-lived Habsburg emperor of Mexico.
MAXIMUS   male   Ancient Roman
Roman family name which was derived from Latin maximus "greatest". Saint Maximus was a monk and theologian from Constantinople in the 7th century.
EMILIANO   male   Spanish, Italian
Spanish and Italian form of the Roman cognomen Aemilianus, which was itself derived from the family name Aemilius (see EMIL).
EMIL   male   Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Romanian, Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, Slovene, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Hungarian, Icelandic, English
From the Roman family name Aemilius, which was derived from Latin aemulus meaning "rival".
MAXWELL   male   English
From a Scottish surname meaning "Mack's stream", from the name Mack, a short form of the Scandinavian name MAGNUS, combined with Old English wella "stream". A famous bearer of the surname was James Maxwell (1831-1879), a Scottish physicist who studied gases and electromagnetism.
MAGNUS   male   Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Late Roman
Late Latin name meaning "great". It was borne by a 7th-century saint who was a missionary in Germany. It became popular in Scandinavia after the time of the 11th-century Norwegian king Magnus I, who was said to have been named after Charlemagne, or Carolus Magnus in Latin (however there was also a Norse name Magni). The name was borne by six subsequent kings of Norway as well as three kings of Sweden. It was imported to Scotland and Ireland during the Middle Ages.
EQUIVALENTS
ANCIENT ROMAN: Maximiliana
ENGLISH: Maxene
FRENCH: Maximilienne
GERMAN: Maximiliane
MASCULINE FORMS
ANCIENT ROMAN: Maximilianus
CZECH: Maxmilián
DANISH: Max, Maximilian
DUTCH: Max, Maximiliaan
ENGLISH: Max, Maximilian, Maximillian, Maxwell
FRENCH: Maximilien
GERMAN: Max, Maximilian
HUNGARIAN: Miksa
ITALIAN: Massimiliano
NORWEGIAN: Max, Maximilian
POLISH: Maksymilian
PORTUGUESE: Maximiliano
RUSSIAN: Maksimilian
SLOVAK: Maximilián
SPANISH: Maximiliano
SWEDISH: Max, Maximilian
OTHER FORMS
ANCIENT ROMAN: Maxima, Maximianus, Maximinus, Maximus
BELARUSIAN: Maksim, Maxim
FRENCH: Maxime
ITALIAN: Massimo
MACEDONIAN: Maksim
MEDIEVAL ENGLISH: Mack
POLISH: Maksym
PORTUGUESE: Maximiano, Maximino
RUSSIAN: Maks, Maksim, Maxim
SPANISH: Máxima, Maximiano, Maximino, Máximo
UKRAINIAN: Maksim, Maksym, Maxim
WELSH: Macsen, Maxen