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maxim Name Meaning and History

French and Dutch: from the personal name Maxim (from Latin Maximus ‘greatest’, superlative of magnus ‘great’), borne by a number of early Christian saints.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The maxim name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the maxim family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of maxim Families in the US in 1920
Number of maxim families
 28-54
 10-27		 1-9
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 39 - Messages: 125
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Mayflower,Maxim,Muxham,Maxham cleteboothby 13
Maxim family DeborahYates72 0
Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim maxam1968 26
Retracing my steps: Washburn - Jones connection mdws 1
John K Maxim tmaxim143 0
Maxim - Middleboro, MA Howie 6
Rev Truman Francis Maxim cleteboothby 0
Bertha Lucy Maxim NY d eighmey 1
Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim gilliansutherland_1 4
Dorothea Mae Maxim or Hogan, b. oct.2, 1918 betty mclaughlin 0
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