Màyor

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Màyor is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Circa 1300; from Middle English maire, from Old French maire (“head of a city or town government”) (13th century), from Latin maior (“bigger, greater, superior”), comparative of magnus (“big, great”)..

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 5.9K(measured from records)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 10K
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 23K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈11,000 people, est.

Sources
179 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 5.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mayor in ES Spain, PH Philippines, VE Venezuela and 3 more.

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)

Derivation of Màyor: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Màyor
  1. Middle Englishmaire(measured from records)
  2. Old Frenchmaire“head of a city or town government”(measured from records)
  3. Latinmaior“bigger“bigger, greater, superior”(measured from records)

Circa 1300; from Middle English maire, from Old French maire (“head of a city or town government”) (13th century), from Latin maior (“bigger, greater, superior”), comparative of magnus (“big, great”). Doublet of major.

Sources 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 31 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Màyor 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.

Where Màyor is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines—≈11,000 est.≈1 in 10K—Mayor45
ES Spain#5318,4291 in 5.9K8.4KMayor143
US United States—2,4501 in 136K2.5KMayor179
CO Colombia—≈1,700 est.≈1 in 28K1Mayor72
CH Switzerland—1,2731 in 6.6K1.3KMayor23
VE Venezuela—≈1,300 est.≈1 in 23K—Mayor22
UY Uruguay—2221 in 15K222—18

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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the co-datosgov-candidates register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Màyor is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Mayor, Màyór, Mąyòr, Màÿóŕ, Mâyôr

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Màyor under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Màyor mean, and where does it come from?
Circa 1300; from Middle English maire, from Old French maire (“head of a city or town government”) (13th century), from Latin maior (“bigger, greater, superior”), comparative of magnus (“big, great”).… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
In which country does Màyor have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Màyor in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mayor.
Where is Màyor most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Màyor is densest in Spain — about 1 in 5.9 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Màyor?
In Spain, the national register counted 8,429 people named Màyor, about 1 in 5.9 thousand residents.
How common is Màyor compared with other names?
In Spain, Màyor is the 531st most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Màyor” — the 531st most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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