Given name & surname · also Old English
Maxey
“the greatest”
Maxey is a variant of Max. In Latin use, Max carries the interpretation “the greatest.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Maxey is a variant of Max. In Latin use, Max carries the interpretation “the greatest.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Maxey comes from Old English, and ultimately from Old Norse.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old English eġ (“island; low-lying land”), from Old Irish Maccus.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Maxey through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 291
- 286 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 1945
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 14 in 1945. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 245 as a first name in 2020; 9,916 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Maxey’s family of names
Maxey has a related form in Max. In English usage, Maxey as a surname has a related form in MAXCY.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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