Massimo

Where Massimo comes from

Massimo hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1949
    Massimo D'Alema born
    Italian politician
  2. 1963
    First appearance
    #3,318 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1977
    Massimo Ambrosini born
    Italian association football player
  4. 2023
    Peak, #843
    289 babies named Massimo — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Massimo D'Alema · Italian politician, born 1949
  • Massimo Ambrosini · Italian association football player, born 1977
  • Massimo Oddo · e football acc, born 1976
  • Massimo Troisi · Italian actor, film director, and poet, 1953–1994
  • Massimo d'Azeglio · Italian statesman, novelist and painter, 1798–1866

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.