Maxie

Where Maxie comes from

Maxie 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. 1888
    First appearance
    #815 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1907
    Maxie Rosenbloom born
    American boxer and actor
  3. 1933
    Maxie Wander born
    Austrian writer, active in German Democratic Republic
  4. 1935
    Peak, #514
    125 babies named Maxie — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1945
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #860.
  6. 2009
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Maxie Rosenbloom · American boxer and actor, 1907–1976
  • Maxie Wander · Austrian writer, active in German Democratic Republic, 1933–1977
  • Maxie Santillan Jr. · American actor, 1999–2022
  • Maxie Anderson · American hot air balloonist and businessman, 1934–1983
  • Maxie McCann · Irish footballer, 1934–2017

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.