Meaning of the nameMax

Max is a male name of Latin origin, a short form of Maximilian, which comes from Latin Maximilianus, derived from Maximus, 'the greatest'.

Meaning

“short form of Maximilian, from Latin Maximilianus, derived from Maximus, 'the greatest'”

Source: Wiktionary: Max · Wiktionary: Maximilian · Behind the Name: Max

People (2022): 36,236
Rank in Brazil: #720
Median age: 29 years
2010 Census: 34,224; people

Max in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Max, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1990s (9,285 people).

287 women 35,949 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Max is most common

States with the highest share of people named Max in the population, in the 2022 Census.

Amapá 0.068%
Pará 0.060%
Sergipe 0.039%
Amazonas 0.039%
Roraima 0.028%

All states

State	People	% of population
Pará	4,899	0.060%
São Paulo	4,360	0.010%
Rio de Janeiro	4,218	0.026%
Minas Gerais	3,552	0.017%
Rio Grande do Sul	1,612	0.015%
Bahia	1,587	0.011%
Amazonas	1,518	0.039%
Goiás	1,517	0.022%
Santa Catarina	1,229	0.016%
Maranhão	1,080	0.016%
Pernambuco	1,051	0.012%
Ceará	1,007	0.011%
Paraná	961	0.008%
Espírito Santo	871	0.023%
Sergipe	857	0.039%
Mato Grosso	833	0.023%
Rio Grande do Norte	831	0.025%
Paraíba	631	0.016%
Mato Grosso do Sul	629	0.023%
Alagoas	615	0.020%
Distrito Federal	506	0.018%
Amapá	501	0.068%
Piauí	342	0.011%
Rondônia	339	0.021%
Tocantins	322	0.021%
Acre	189	0.023%
Roraima	179	0.028%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

About the name Max

Max is a short form of Maximilian, a name that comes from Latin Maximilianus, derived from Maximus, 'the greatest', according to Wiktionary. In English, Wiktionary records that Max was taken from German in the nineteenth century as a diminutive of Maximilian and later also came to be used for Maxwell. Behind the Name describes it as a short form of Maximilian or of Maxim and gives Maximiliano and Máximo as the Portuguese forms. In Brazil the name is almost always male, and it was given most in the 1980s and 1990s. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 36,236 people named Max, with a median age of 29; proportionally, it is most common in Amapá.

Sources

Wiktionary: Max · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
Wiktionary: Maximilian · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
Behind the Name: Max · behindthename.com · meaning

Questions about the name Max

What does the name Max mean?

Max means “short form of Maximilian, from Latin Maximilianus, derived from Maximus, 'the greatest'”, according to Wiktionary and Behind the Name.

How many people are named Max in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 36,236 people with the first name Max, which ranks it number 720 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1990s.

Is Max a boy's or a girl's name?

Max is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 287 women and 35,949 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Max?

Max is a name of Latin origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Max most common?

Proportionally, in Amapá: 0.068% of the state's population is named Max (501 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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