Massimo

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Massimo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country, where it is the 27th most common given name. Recorded meaning: from the personal name Massimo, (Latin Maximus ‘greatest’, superlative of magnus ‘great’; compare Magnus), borne by a number of minor early Christian saints.

rarermore common
  • ITItaly≈1 in 244(inferred from the name graph)
  • CHSwitzerland≈1 in 2.6K
  • BEBelgium≈1 in 5.6K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈260,000 people, est.

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
297 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 244 (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MassimoLatin(measured from records)
מאסימוHebrew(measured from records)
ማሲሞEthiopic(measured from records)
마시모Hangul(measured from records)

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from the personal name Massimo, (Latin Maximus ‘greatest’, superlative of magnus ‘great’; compare Magnus), borne by a number of minor early Christian saints.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Massimo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Massimo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy#27≈260,000 est.≈1 in 244429Massimo263
US United States—3,5701 in 93K3.6KMassimo297
CH Switzerland#397≈3,200 est.≈1 in 2.6K34Massimo111
FR France—≈2,100 est.≈1 in 32K1.1KMassimo4
BE Belgium—≈2,100 est.≈1 in 5.6K11Massimo91
NL Netherlands—≈580 est.≈1 in 30K191Massimo41
MD Moldova—1351 in 25K135—1

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); e-services.md — living population register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Massimo is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Germany, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Mássimo, Màssîmô

  • Russian given name41 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Croatia, Spain, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Croatian, Polish

    Also written Masimo, Массимо, Массімо, Масимо, Масіма

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Mássimo

  • Hungarian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Hungary, Switzerland, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Mąšşǐmǒ

  • Thai given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Thailand, Laos, Switzerland

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written มัสซิโม, มัสซิโม่, มัสซีโม่, Mássimo

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Massimo is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, maximum

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Italian, Lat. Maximus, 'il più grande'; nome popolare e ridotto in varie forme familiari.

    as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

  • In Italian, Dal latino Maximus, 'grandissimo'.

    as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

  • In Italian, forma italiana de Maximus

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In Swedish, Se Maximus.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

175018001850190019502000Massimo d'Azeglio, b. 1798Massimo Dallamano, b. 1917Massimo Girotti, b. 1918Massimo D'Alema, b. 1949Massimo Troisi, b. 1953Massimo Ghini, b. 1954Massimo Gaudioso, b. 1958Massimo Busacca, b. 1969Massimo Ambrosini, b. 1977Massimo Stano, b. 1992

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 80 sources across 36 countries.

Official registers attesting Massimo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020455#49,823
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010440#48,060
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000425#47,026
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202434#24,910
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200811#66,696
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199111—

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Massimo mean, and where does it come from?
from the personal name Massimo, (Latin Maximus ‘greatest’, superlative of magnus ‘great’; compare Magnus), borne by a number of minor early Christian saints. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
Is Massimo a male or female name?
Massimo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Massimo?
In the etymology graph, Max, Maxime and Maksym are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Massimo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 256 thousand people named Massimo in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled massimo.
How common is the name Massimo?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,570 people named Massimo in 2020, about 1 in 93 thousand residents.
How common is Massimo compared with other names?
In Italy, Massimo is the 27th most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Massimo” — the 27th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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