Maxim or Maksim

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Possible boy’s name - I want a name that honours Maximilian but don’t like Maximilian, Maximus, or Maxwell. Max is cute but I want a longer name as my other children have longer names. I love these two but think I prefer it spelled with a ‘k’ as it can give the option Mak as a nickname as well as Max (which I also love!). Your thoughts? And also, would it pair well with a twin sister named:

• Rosa
• Genevieve

Something else? And any ideas for other boys name it goes with?

Welsh - Macsen? Can still call him Max

Maxim.

Maxim is a well known men's porn magazine so I wouldn't go with that spelling. CTO

Are you Russian? I think Maksim would be strange choice if you are just British. And doesn’t honour Maximilian as well as Maxim imo.

Absolutely no idea how the "CTO" has got there..

Maksim looks like a tech company. Maxim if you must.

Only go with one those girls names if you like Rosie and Jenny/Jen, they’ll inevitably be shortened by others no matter how much you protest.

Maxim. Maksim is very odd looking to me and might cause headaches for him as he gets older.

Love Rosa!

Love Max but Maksim is Slavic so a bit weird to use if you’re not from one of those countries and people will probably think he’s Russian. Maxim is a soft porn lad’s mag but you could spell it Maxime which is the French way and I think that would go really nicely with Genevieve.

They sound Russian spelt like that

Maxian
Maxen
Maxon
Maximus
Magnus

Magnus and Rosa are lovely together

I’d go for Maximus.

The problem with Maxim is that people will automatically stress the first syllable whereas I'm guessing you want the stress on the second syllable? If that's the case, it's Maksim. Great name, by the way.

The people we are honouring (a family member) is from one of the countries that uses the name with both spellings.

Definitely not Maxim. It’s a well known magazine.

I like Maksim actually

Maxim is lovely, one of my fave boys names -elegant, uncommon, yet still fairly well known. I agree Maximilian at 5 syllables could be a bit much, Maximus is a gladiator, Maxwell's a surname and Max more a diminutive - Maxim always seems just right to me . If you live in the UK, I'd stick with spelling it this way as it's the most well known spelling (ala Du Maurier's "Rebecca").

The lads mag association is probably the reason it's not a more popular name - but at least it's not on high street shelves here anymore, and I don't think a lot of men/boys would bother with Maxim online these days.

It pairs well with most international girls names I think, so Rosa or Genevieve work fine.

Maxim.

I thought the lads mags were abolished years ago like Maxim and Loaded.

Maksim - I like it more now knowing your Slavic history, however at first look, it looked like you were trying to make a name look 'cool' with its own spelling.

I'm going for Maxim. By the time he is grown the magazine will be a thing of the past. I'm late 40's btw so saw the growth of Loaded, Maxim, even worse - Nuts. I thought they had all slowly died.

I've just googled, clearly it's alive and well 🙄.

I'll pm you with my name 🤣

Actually I really like Maks.

Macsen is also cool, now I think about it!

Reminds me of Maxim from the Prodigy so it's a good name in my book!

Just go with Max.
Max and Genevieve
Max and Rosa

Max as a stand-alone name doesn’t really work with our other children’s names, who have longer names and nicknames/shortened versions. Just Max sounds a bit.. short?

Max sounds just fine to me. Don’t go for unusual spellings. People will always mispell Maksim in the Uk.

Why do the names need to match? They're individual people who will have their own lives, they don't need to be a "set".

Maksim is a very Russian name, people may think that you have a connection to Russia. It that's ok, its fine to use if you want to.