Màj
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Màj is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: surname adopted with reference to the month of May, Polish maj (see May).
- PLPoland1 in 2.1K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 30K
- NONorway1 in 48K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
18,327 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)surname adopted with reference to the month of May, Polish maj (see May). Surnames referring to months were sometimes adopted by Jewish converts to Christianity, with reference to the month in which they were baptized or in which the surname was registered.
Cited for this meaning 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Wiktionary
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
- Nordic Names
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Màj counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 18,327 | 1 in 2.1K | 9.2K | — | — |
| US United States | 470 | 1 in 708K | 497 | — | 6 |
| DK Denmark | 193 | 1 in 30K | 1.4K | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 182 | 1 in 59K | 182 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 114 | 1 in 48K | 1.1K | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 60 | 1 in 140K | 60 | — | 1 |
18,327 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Màj mean, and where does it come from?
- surname adopted with reference to the month of May, Polish maj (see May). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon and 3 other sources.
- Is Màj a male or female name?
- Màj is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Màj have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 18 thousand people named Màj, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Màj most common?
- Màj is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Màj?
- In Poland, the national register counted 18,327 people named Màj in 2026, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A0jThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Màj”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.