Mâÿ
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mâÿ is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From English May, from Middle English, from Old English, from Old French mai, from Latin māius (“Maia's month”), from Maia, a Roman earth goddess, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *magya (“she who is.
- SGSingapore≈1 in 2K(inferred from the name graph)
- LALaos≈1 in 2.2K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 2.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mâÿ itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #742 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 558 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
103,306 people, 2010
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled May in GB United Kingdom, AU Australia, DE Germany and 1 more, Mi in US United States, IN India and Mati in LA Laos.
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)
- EnglishMay(measured from records)
- MiddleEnglish(measured from records)
- OldEnglish(measured from records)
- Old Frenchmai(measured from records)
- Latinmāius“Maia's month”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*magya“she who is great”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-Europeanbase(measured from records)
From English May, from Middle English, from Old English, from Old French mai, from Latin māius (“Maia's month”), from Maia, a Roman earth goddess, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *magya (“she who is great”), from Proto-Indo-European base *meg- (“great”).
Sources 7
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mâÿ 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #236 | 103,306 | 1 in 3.2K | 103K | Mi | 558 |
| IN India | — | 73,466as Mali | 1 in 18K | 73K | Mi | 67 |
| GB United Kingdom | #156 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 7 | May | 303 |
| DE Germany | #176 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | listed | May | 197 |
| NP Nepal | — | 19,605as Mali | 1 in 1.5K | 20K | — | — |
| AU Australia | #195 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 6 | May | 246 |
| LA Laos | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Mati | 11 |
| SG Singapore | #125 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | May | 122 |
103,306 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling may. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only. 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 Mâÿ mean, and where does it come from?
- From English May, from Middle English, from Old English, from Old French mai, from Latin māius (“Maia's month”), from Maia, a Roman earth goddess, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *magya (“she who is… Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and A concise dictionary of first names and 5 other sources.
- Is Mâÿ a male or female name?
- Mâÿ 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 Mâÿ have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 103 thousand people named Mâÿ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mi.
- How common is the name Mâÿ?
- In the United States, the national register counted 103,306 people named Mâÿ in 2010, about 1 in 3.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Mâÿ compared with other names?
- In the United States, Mâÿ is the 236th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A2%C3%BFThe 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, “Mâÿ” — the 236th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.