Max
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from the German Max, diminutive of Maximilian in the 19th century, later also used as a nickname for Maxwell.
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Max
- A male given name from Latin.
- 2002, Cynthia Heimel, If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 177:
- Since it seems to me that this fad of child-rearing has turned into an actual trend, that babies are an increasingly popular accessory for people-on-the-go, I first want to say to stop naming your boys Max. Max is a perfectly nice name, ensuring its owner a certain precocious sensibility, but there are enough Maxes now. Any more Maxes and the breed will go to the dogs.
- 2015, Max:
- Kyle: Okay, Max. Search.
- A diminutive of the female given name Maxine
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Related terms edit
- (male given name): female form: Maxine
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Danish edit
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Max
- a male given name borrowed from German
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from German Max. Equivalent to a shortening of Maximiliaan.
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Max m
- a male given name
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
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Max
- a male given name
Declension edit
Inflection of Max (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Max | Maxit | ||
genitive | Maxin | Maxien | ||
partitive | Maxia | Maxeja | ||
illative | Maxiin | Maxeihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Max | Maxit | ||
accusative | nom. | Max | Maxit | |
gen. | Maxin | |||
genitive | Maxin | Maxien | ||
partitive | Maxia | Maxeja | ||
inessive | Maxissa | Maxeissa | ||
elative | Maxista | Maxeista | ||
illative | Maxiin | Maxeihin | ||
adessive | Maxilla | Maxeilla | ||
ablative | Maxilta | Maxeilta | ||
allative | Maxille | Maxeille | ||
essive | Maxina | Maxeina | ||
translative | Maxiksi | Maxeiksi | ||
abessive | Maxitta | Maxeitta | ||
instructive | — | Maxein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics edit
- Max is the 139th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 4,462 male individuals (and as a middle name to 802 more), and also belongs to 18 female individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
French edit
Etymology edit
Clipping of Maxime, Maximilien, Maxence.
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Max m
- a male given name
- Diminutive of Maxime
- Diminutive of Maximilien
- Diminutive of Maxence
German edit
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Max
- a diminutive of the male given name Maximilian
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Hungarian edit
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Max
Declension edit
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | Max | Maxok |
accusative | Maxot | Maxokat |
dative | Maxnak | Maxoknak |
instrumental | Maxszal | Maxokkal |
causal-final | Maxért | Maxokért |
translative | Maxszá | Maxokká |
terminative | Maxig | Maxokig |
essive-formal | Maxként | Maxokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | Maxban | Maxokban |
superessive | Maxon | Maxokon |
adessive | Maxnál | Maxoknál |
illative | Maxba | Maxokba |
sublative | Maxra | Maxokra |
allative | Maxhoz | Maxokhoz |
elative | Maxból | Maxokból |
delative | Maxról | Maxokról |
ablative | Maxtól | Maxoktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
Maxé | Maxoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
Maxéi | Maxokéi |
Possessive forms of Max | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | Maxom | Maxaim |
2nd person sing. | Maxod | Maxaid |
3rd person sing. | Maxa | Maxai |
1st person plural | Maxunk | Maxaink |
2nd person plural | Maxotok | Maxaitok |
3rd person plural | Maxuk | Maxaik |
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From German Max. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1825.
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Proper noun edit
Max c (genitive Max)
- a male given name
- 1975, Christer Kihlman, Dyre prins, Wahlström & Widstrand, →ISBN, page 113:
- Som liten var jag ganska stolt över mitt namn. Donald! Det klingade minsann mäktigare det än både Kalle och Ville och Lasse. Senare, när jag upphöjt mig själv i borgarståndet och för säkerhets skull beseglat min borgerlighet genom äktenskapet med Gunnel Lindermann hade jag uppriktigt sagt gärna hetat nånting annat, nånting mera traditionellt ståndsmässigt, eller från den synpunkten konventionellare, som Johan eller Henrik eller Carl-Gustaf. Till och med Max och Moritz och Niklas hade gått an. Bara inte Donald.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)