Maxcine
Feminine · “greatest”
Maxcine adds a letter that the name already contains. The x is one of the very few letters in English that writes two sounds at once — a k and an s, welded together — so putting a c after it spells the k a second time. The name is said exactly as Maxine, and the extra letter exists purely on the page.
How old is the name Maxcine?
Maxcine first appears in US birth records in 1915 — 110 years ago. The typical Maxcine alive today was born around 1942, making them about 83 years old. About 500 people named Maxcine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Maxcine most popular?
Maxcine peaked in 1940, reaching #1186 nationally. See the whole 1940 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Latin maximus, meaning greatest to Maxcine
The story of Maxcine
Maximilian was invented by a father who wanted his son to sound like two Romans at once. The Emperor Frederick the Third put together the names of Fabius Maximus, the general who beat Hannibal by refusing to fight him, and Scipio Aemilianus, who destroyed Carthage, and gave the result to his heir. The boy grew up to be the emperor who married Europe together by arranging weddings instead of wars. The name spread across the German-speaking world from him, and every Max, Maxine and Maxie in the record descends from a Renaissance father's rather grand idea about classical education.
Meaning
greatest
Behind Maxine is the Latin superlative meaning greatest, which came into use as a name through Maximus and Maximilian. The x is doing double duty: it is a single character standing for a pair of consonants, which English inherited from Latin and Latin from Greek, and it is the reason the letter is so rare — most languages that use the Roman alphabet either write the two sounds out or have dropped the letter altogether. Adding a c behind it does not change the sound in any mouth. It changes only how the word sits on a line.
How the name formed
- Latin maximus, meaning greatest
- an emperor coins Maximilian from two Roman names
- Max and Maxine spread through Europe and America
- Maxcine appears as an American spelling in the 1910s
- peaks around 1940 and fades
Related forms: Maxine · Maxime · Maximiliane
Pronouncing Maxcine
mak-SEEN
Two syllables with the stress at the back. The c is entirely silent, or rather it is a second spelling of a sound the x has already provided.
Nicknames for Maxcine
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1915
- Most girls named
- 194038 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1186reached in 1940
- Change vs 1967
- −16.7%5 in 1971, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Maxcine in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Maxine in English — spelling variant
- Maxime in French — related form
- Maximiliane in German — related form
Maxcines among us
people named Maxcine are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
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Fashion outlook
Maxcine sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Max is available immediately and has never gone out of fashion in a hundred years.
- The meaning is short, clear and good: greatest.
- The sound is completely familiar while the spelling is genuinely uncommon.
- The extra c will be dropped by every clerk, teacher and database she ever meets.
- Many readers will treat the spelling as an error rather than a variant.
- Maxine is closely dated to the first half of the last century, and this spelling more so.
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- How many Maxcines are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Maxcine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
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- Maxcine is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Maxcine with classmates?
- Maxcine will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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