Max

A male given name, form of Maximilian.

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Max is a masculine given name. It is often a short form (hypocorism) of Maximilian or sometimes Maxwell in English. Maxine is a feminine equivalent of Max used in English.
People named Max include:
Max Adler
Maximilian Max Baer (boxer) (1909-1959), American world heavyweight boxing champion
Maximilian Max Baer, Jr. (born 1937), son of the boxer, actor on TV's The Beverly Hillbillies
Max Baer (judge) (born 1947), Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice
Baron Max Wladimir von Beck (1854–1943), Austrian politician
Max Born (1882–1970), German physicist, mathematician and Nobel laureate
Max Brown (actor) (born 1981), English actor
Maxwell Max Brown (novelist) (1916–2003), Australian novelist
Max Brown (rugby league) (born 1946), Australian rugby league footballer
Max Changmin (born 1988), member of the pop group TVXQ
Max Collins
Max Cooper (electronica musician), European electronica and techno musician
Max Dale Cooper (born 1933), American immunologist
Max Delbrück (1906–1981), German–American biophysicist
Max Delbrück (chemist) (1850-1919), German agricultural chemist, uncle of the above
Max Evans
Max Jakob Friedländer (1867–1958), German curator and art historian
Max Geller (born 1971), Israeli Olympic wrestler
Maxwell Max Green (musician) (born 1984), American musician
Max Green (lawyer) (1952–1998), Australian lawyer, embezzler and murder victim
Max Hastings (born 1945), British journalist, editor, historian and author
Max Huber (Canadian football) (born 1945), American football player in the Canadian Football League
Max Huber (graphic designer) (1919–1992), Swiss graphic designer
Max Huber (statesman) (1874–1960), Swiss lawyer and diplomat
Baron Max Hussarek von Heinlein (1865–1935), Austrian politician, Prime Minister of Austria in 1918
Max King (theologian) (born 1930), founder of the school of thought known as Transmillennialism
Max King (runner) (born 1980), American ultramarathon runner, winner of the 2014 IAU 100 km World Championships
Max Kougere (born 1987), Central African basketball player
Max Marcuse (1877–1963), Jewish-German/Israeli dermatologist and sexologist
Max Friedrich Meyer (1873–1967), German-born American psychologist
Maximilian Max Meyer (footballer) (born 1995), German footballer
Max Meyer-Olbersleben (1850–1927), German composer and pianist
Max Morinière (born 1964), French retired sprinter
Max Müller
Max Planck (1858-1947), German theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate
Max Reinhardt (1873–1943), Austrian-born American theatre and film director, intendant and theatrical producer
Max Reinhardt (publisher) (1915–2002), British publisher
Max Rudolf (conductor) (1902—1995), German conductor
Max Saalmüller (1832–1890), Prussian lieutenant colonel and German entomologist
Max Schäfer (1907-1990), German football player and manager
Max Schäfer (soldier) (1907-1987), German World War II officer
Max Schneider, American pop musician
Max Ugrai (born 1995), German basketball player
Max Verstappen (born 1997), Belgian-Dutch racing driver
Max Weber
Max Wyndham, 2nd Baron Egremont (born 1948), generally known as Max Egremont, British biographer and novelist

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"to reach the maximum level," by 1986, colloquial, from maximize or related words. Related: Maxed; maxing.

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Little Maximus: greatest. Short form of Maximilian: greatest.

Maximilian, Maxim, Massimiliano, Maximiliano

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Max von Sydow	1929	Swedish actor
2	Max Martin	1971	Swedish music producer and songwriter
3	Max Holloway	1991	American martial artist
4	Max Greenfield	1980	American actor
5	Max Verstappen	1997	Dutch racing driver
6	Max Minghella	1985	English actor
7	Max Irons	1985	Film actor and model
8	Max Baer	1909	Boxer
9	Max Thieriot	1988	American actor
10	Max Planck	1858	German theoretical physicist
11	Max Joseph	1982	American film director, film producer and film editor
12	Max Landis	1985	American screenwriter
13	Max Kellerman	1973	Sports radio host
14	Max B	1978	American rapper and convicted felon
15	Max Rockatansky		Protagonist of the Mad Max films franchise
16	Max Martini	1969	Actor
17	Max Riemelt	1984	German actor
18	Max Handelman	1973	American writer
19	Max Burkholder	1997	American actor
20	Max Brooks	1972	American author
21	Max Scherzer	1984	Baseball pitcher from the United States
22	Max Carver	1988	US actor
23	Max von der Groeben	1992	German actor
24	Max Baer, Jr.	1937	Film and television actor, producer and director
25	Max Ernst	1891	German painter, sculptor and graphic artist
26	Max Schmeling	1905	German boxer who was heavyweight champion of the world between 1930 and 1932
27	Max Casella	1967	American actor
28	Max Schneider	1992	American singer-songwriter, dancer, actor, model, and musician, and sing
29	Max Yasgur	1919	American farmer who leased land for Woodstock
30	Max Beesley	1971	British actor and musician
31	Max Weinberg	1951	American drummer
32	Max Hardcore	1956	American pornographic actor
33	Max Whitlock	1993	English gymnast
34	Max Gail	1943	American actor
35	Max Richter	1966	British composer
36	Tucker Max	1975	Internet personality; blogger; author
37	Max Charles	2003	Actor
38	Max Cavalera	1969	Brazilian musician
39	Max Born	1882	Physicist
40	Max Stirner	1806	German philosopher
41	Max Clifford	1943	Former publicist and convicted sex offender
42	Max Meyer	1995	German footballer
43	Max Mosley	1940	President FIA; former race car driver
44	Max Levchin	1975	American businessman
45	Max Schreck	1879	German actor
46	Max Lucado	1955	American clergyman and writer
47	Max Gradel	1987	Ivorian footballer
48	Max Kruse	1988	German football player
49	Max Benitz	1985	British actor and journalist
50	Max Mercury		Fictional character
51	Max Domi	1995	Canadian ice hockey player
52	Max Branning
53	Max Pacioretty	1988	American ice hockey player
54	Max Kennedy	1965	American lawyer
55	Max Wright	1943	Actor from the United States
56	Max Roach	1924	American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
57	Max George	1988	British singer, songwriter and producer
58	Peter Max	1937	American artist
59	Max Gerson	1881	German physician, originator of Gerson Therapy
60	Max Blumenthal	1977	American journalist
61	Max Fleischer	1883	Animator, inventor. film director
62	Max Brown	1981	English actor
63	Max Alberti	1982	German actor and musician
64	Max Goof
65	Max Mermelstein	1942	American drug trafficker
66	Max Azria	1949	American fashion designer
67	Max Giermann	1975	German actor, comedian, clown and news presenter
68	Max Baucus	1941	American politician
69	Max Chilton	1991	Racecar driver
70	Max Cantor	1959	American actor and journalist
71	Max Greger	1926	German conductor and bandleader
72	Max Mittelman	1990	American voice actor
73	Max Moor	1958	Swiss actor and television presenter
74	Max Bygraves	1922	Singer, comedian, actor
75	Max Walker	1948	Australian cricketer
76	Max Felder	1988	German actor and voice actor
77	Max Morley	1993	English cricketer
78	Max Biaggi	1971	Italian motorcycle racer
79	Kevin Max	1967	American musician and poet
80	Max Giusti	1968	Italian actor
81	Max Adler	1986	American television actor
82	Max Beckmann	1884	German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor and writer
83	Max Keiser	1960	American broadcaster
84	Max Steiner	1888	American composer
85	Max Müller	1965	Austrian actor and singer
86	Max Horkheimer	1895	German philosopher and sociologist
87	Max Tegmark	1967	Cosmologist
88	Max Uthoff	1967	German jurist and cabaret artist
89	Max Schröder	1974	German musician
90	Max Bemis	1984	American musician
91	Max Hastings	1945	British journalist, editor, historian and author
92	Max Pirkis	1989	British actor
93	Max Rushden	1979	British sports broadcaster
94	Max Allan Collins	1948	Writer
95	Max Mallowan	1904	British archaeologist
96	Max McCaffrey	1994	American football player
97	Max Bruch	1838	German romantic composer and conductor
98	Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook	1879	Anglo-Canadian business tycoon, politician, and writer
99	Max Kepler	1993	German baseball player
100	Max Perlich	1968	Actor
101	Max Elliott Slade	1980	American actor
102	Max Unger	1986	American football player, offensive lineman
103	Max Tortora	1963	Italian impressionist, comedian and actor
104	Max Ehrich	1991	American actor
105	Max Mirnyi	1977	Belorussian tennis player
106	Max Reger	1873	German composer, pianist and conductor
107	Max Cady
108	Max Boot	1969	American writer and historian
109	Max Grodénchik	1952	American stage actor
110	Max Showalter	1917	Actor, musician
111	Max Jacobson	1900	Physician
112	Max Ryan	1967	British actor
113	Max Julien	1945	American actor
114	Max von Laue	1879	German physicist
115	Max Green	1984	Musician
116	Max Wertheimer	1880	Co-founder of Gestalt psychology
117	Max Payne (character)		Video game character
118	Max Browne	1995	American football player
119	Max Cleland	1942	American politician
120	Max Zorin
121	Max Ehrmann	1872	American writer, poet, and attorney
122	Max Grießer	1928	German actor
123	Max Records	1997	Actor
124	Max Manus	1914	Norwegian resistance member
125	Max Frisch	1911	Swiss playwright and novelist
126	Max Robinson	1939	Television journalist
127	Max Greevey	1947	Character in the TV series Law & Order
128	Max Ophüls	1902	German-born film director
129	Max Reinhardt	1873	Theatre director, actor
130	Max Jenkins	1985	American actor and writer
131	Max Scheler	1874	German philosopher
132	Max Wall	1908	English music hall artist/actor
133	Max Immelmann	1890	German flying ace
134	Max Power	1993	English footballer
135	Max Miller	1894	Music hall comedian, actor
136	Max Boyce	1945	Welsh comedian and folk singer
137	Max Winkler	1983	Film director, screenwriter, television director
138	Max Beerbohm	1872	English writer
139	Max Cunningham
140	Max Raabe	1962	German singer
141	Max Liebermann	1847	German painter
142	Max Carl	1950	American musician
143	Max Bill	1908	Swiss architect, artist and designer
144	Max Aaron	1992	American figure skater
145	Max Fisher	1908	American businessman and philanthropist
146	Max McGee	1932	American football player
147	Max Wittek	1993	American football player
148	Max Woosnam	1892	English football and tennis player
149	Max Brod	1884	Author, composer, and journalist
150	Max Euwe	1901	Dutch chess Grandmaster, mathematician, and author
151	Max Ryder	1993	American pornographic actor
152	Max Butler	1972	American convicted criminal, former computer security consultant and hacker
153	Maximilian Schrems	1987	Activist from Austria
154	Max Kasch	1985	American actor
155	Max Romeo	1947	Jamaican reggae musician
156	Max Bretos		American sports journalist
157	Max Perutz	1914	Austrian-born British molecular biologist
158	Max	1969	French disc jockey
159	Max Topplin	1989	Canadian actor
160	Max Eastman	1883	American activist
161	Max Fercondini	1985	Brazilian actor
162	Max Jacob	1876	French poet, painter, writer and critic
163	Max Wünsche	1914	Recipient of the Knight's Cross
164	Max Pisu	1965	Italian actor
165	Max Pomeranc	1984	American actor
166	Max Clayton	1994	English footballer
167	Max Brady
168	Max Guevara
169	Max Linder	1883	French silent film actor
170	Max Milner	1990	British singer
171	Max Vieri	1978	Australian soccer player
172	Max Gawn	1991	Australian rules footballer
173	Max Amann	1891	German Nazi official and publisher
174	Max Russo
175	Max Meynier	1938	French radio host (1938-2006)
176	Max Herre	1973	German rapper
177	Max Garcia	1991	American football player
178	Max Borenstein		American screenwriter and director
179	Max Delbrück	1906	Biophysicist
180	Max Otto Bruker	1909	German politician
181	Max Amini	1977	American comedian
182	Max Strauß	1959	German jurist
183	Max Bullough	1992	American football player
184	Max Weisel	1991	Software developer
185	Max Alexander	1953	American stand-up comedian, actor
186	Max Hoyland
187	Max Collins	1978	American musician
188	Max Battimo	1974	American actor
189	Max Hoffmann	1869	German general
190	Max von Gallwitz	1852	German general
191	Max Papis	1969	Italian racing driver
192	Max Schradin	1978	German television presenter
193	Max Mutchnick	1965	American television producer
194	Max Emerson	1988
195	Max Patkin	1920	American baseball player
196	Max Evans		Fictional character from Roswell High
197	Max Hall	1985	American football player
198	Max Barry	1973	Australian writer
199	Frederick Schiller Faust	1892	American novelist, and short story writer
200	Max More	1964	American philosopher and futurist