Maxime (first name)
Maxime is a French male given name.
Origin and meaning
Maxime is the French derivation of the Latin maximus - "the greatest".
distribution
The first name is common in all francophone countries.
variants
- Slavic form of name: Maxim / Maksim
Name bearer
- Maxime Alexandre (poet) (1899–1976), Alsatian poet and author
- Maxime Alexandre (cameraman) (* 1971), Belgian cameraman
- Maxime Bally (* 1986), Swiss cyclist
- Maxime Beney (* 1984), Swiss road cyclist
- Maxime Bôcher (1867-1918), American mathematician
- Maxime Bossis (* 1955), French football player
- Maxime Bouet (* 1986), French cyclist
- Maxime Brunerie (* 1977), French assassin
- Maxime Carlot Korman (* 1941), Vanuatu politician
- Maxime Chattam (* 1976), French writer
- Maxime Collin (* 1979), Canadian actor
- Maxime Du Camp (1822–1894), French writer, journalist and photographer
- Maxime A. Faget (1921-2004), American aerospace engineer
- Maxime Godart (* 1999), French football player
- Maxime Gonalons (* 1989), French football player
- Maxime Laheurte (* 1985), French Nordic combined skier and ski jumper
- Maxime Leboeuf (* 1987), Canadian biathlete
- Maxime Le Forestier (* 1949), French chansonnier
- Maxime Lestienne (* 1992), Belgian football player
- Maxime Macenauer (* 1989), Canadian ice hockey player
- Maxime Méderel (* 1980), French racing cyclist
- Maxime Monfort (* 1983), Belgian racing cyclist
- Maxime Ouédraogo (1923–2001), Burkinabe politician and football official
- Maxime Ouellet (* 1981), Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper
- Maxime Remy (* 1984), French ski jumper
- Maxime Rodinson (1915-2004), French historian, sociologist and orientalist
- Maxime Talbot (* 1984), Canadian ice hockey player
- Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (* 1990), French chess grandmaster
- Maxime Vantomme (* 1986), Belgian racing cyclist
- Maxime Verhagen (* 1956), Dutch politician
- Maxime Weygand (1867-1965), French general
- Maxime Zuber (* 1963), Swiss politician
See also
- Maxim
- Olympe Maxime, French headmistress in " Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire "
- Sainte-Maxime
- Maxine , feminine form