How seriously do you consider name meanings?

shellylovelee

We are romantics and want the name for our little guy to have some type of meaning to us...  I recently had a name I loved at the top of our list - Maximus - and then later read that it also can mean "the largest".  Since our last name means "large or big" I was pretty bummed to learn this!

Italians would probably laugh at this combo, but I just can't decide how much credence I should give such a thing...  Just curious about your thoughts on the meanings of names...