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 [ 2 syll. ma-xwel(l), max-we-ll ] The boy name Maxwell is pronounced as MAEKSWEHL KEY. Maxwell is an English and Scottish name of Old English origin. Derived from the word 'wella' meaning pool, stream. The first name is from the Scottish family name, which is itself from a place name around the River Tweed, meaning 'Mack's pool'. The name was borne by Sir William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (1879-1964), a Canadian-born newspaper tycoon, politician, and writer; his middle name has been used by his descendants as a first name. The English name Maxy is a form of the name. Other variants of Maxwell include the short forms Max (English) and Maxie (English), and the pet form Maxx (English). See also the related form, the English Mack. Maxwell is popular as a baby boy name. The name has been growing in popularity since the 1970s. Its usage peaked modestly in 1999 with 0.164% of baby boys being given the name Maxwell. It had a ranking of #106 then. In 2008, its usage was 0.140% and its ranking #134. Among the family of boy names directly linked to Maxwell, the English and German Max was the most widely used. In 2008, it was more regularly used than Maxwell by 10% . Baby names that sound like Maxwell include the English Macawlay, the Welsh Meical, the Portuguese Micael, the English Mical, the Czech, English, German, and Yiddish Michael, the Greek and Russian Michail, the Czech and Polish Michal, the English Michale, the English and Scottish Micheal, the Scottish Micheil, the Czech, French, and German Michel, the Italian Michele, the English Michiel, the French Mickaël, the English and Scandinavian Mickel, the Portuguese and Spanish Miguel, the Estonian Mihkel, the Scandinavian Mikael, the Russian Mikail, and the Basque and English Mikel. KEY: Pronunciation for Maxwell: M as in "me (M.IY)" ; AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; K as in "key (K.IY)" ; S as in "sea (S.IY)" ; W as in "we (W.IY)" ; EH as in "Ed (EH.D)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)"   |
