Meanings
- A female given name.
Maxina Michelle Smith
1997 May 20, “Southeast Candidates cont’d”, in The Macon Telegraph, home edition, 172nd year, number 140, Macon, Ga., →ISSN, →OCLC, “Graduation ’97” section, page 3, column 23 more examples
My nick-name is Max. My given name is Maxina Lee. […] I was a white fox terrier with a natural stub tail, brown and white markings on my head and brown eyes.
1920 September 25, Elma Fowler, “[Precious Pets] Prize Letter”, in Charles M. Day, editor, The Daily Argus-Leader, evening edition, Sioux Falls, S.D.: Argus-Leader Co., →OCLC, page 5, column 3Funeral services for Mrs. Horace Bellard, the former Mary Maxina Pitre, 64, were held at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Holy Family Roman Catholic Church here with burial in the church cemetery.
1986 October 9, “[Obituaries] Mary P. Bellard”, in Daily World, volume 46, number 246, Opelousas, La., →OCLC, page 14, column 2Mr. and Mrs. George Purdy of DeWitt, Ark., announce the engagement of their daugher, Brandy Maxina, to John Nathaniel Mills, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Mills of O’Fallon, Ill.
1998 August 2, “[Engagements] Purdy-Mills”, in Abilene Reporter-News, Abilene, Tex.: Scripps Howard, →ISSN, →OCLC, “Sunday Life” section, page 9, column 3
Origin
From Max + -ina. Piecewise doublet of Maxine.
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