Maynard
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From the Norman male personal name Mainard, ultimately Germanic, literally ‘strength-strong’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈmeɪnɝd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maynard is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Costa Rica it is the 50th most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 9.1K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 186as Mena
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 914as Mena
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 Maynard 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)
- #1000 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 479 (measured from records)
- 1 in 135 (inferred from the name graph)
36,460 people, 2010
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mena in CL Chile, CR Costa Rica, ES Spain 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)
From the Norman male personal name Mainard, ultimately Germanic, literally ‘strength-strong’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maynard 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 | #720 | 36,460 | 1 in 9.1K | 36K | Maynard | 479 |
| CR Costa Rica | #50 | 27,421as Mena | 1 in 186 | 27K | Mena | 104 |
| CO Colombia | #307 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 22 | Mena | 113 |
| ES Spain | #207 | 21,695as Mena | 1 in 2.3K | 22K | Mena | 185 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 15,742as Mena | 1 in 1.1K | 16K | Mena | 69 |
| CL Chile | #183 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 1 | Mena | 116 |
| SV El Salvador | #150 | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 914 | — | Mena | 62 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 400 | 1 in 135 | 400 | — | 21 |
36,460 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Maynard is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Transferred use of the surname, which is derived from a Norman French given name of Germanic origin, from magin ‘strength’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
from the Continental Germanic personal name Mainard, composed of the elements magin ‘strength’ -i- hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, From OFr Mainard, Meinard, OG Maganhard, Meginard; first attested Meinardus uigil 1086 DB (Norfolk)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, tinental Gmc personal name Mainard, composed of the elements magin strength + hard hardy, brave, strong. Mayall see Male Vars.: Eng.: Mainerd. (hypercorrected), Maybin see Mabon Patrs.: Low Ger.: Mein(d)ers, Mein(ert)z, Men(t)z, Menzen. Fris.: Minners; Meents; Meendsen, Meenzen; Minten.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
De fuerza colosal
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Robert Maynardb. 1684GBRoyal Navy officer (1684-1751)
- Horace Maynardb. 1814USAmerican politician (1814–1882)
- Daisy Grevilleb. 1861GBnot in their usual nameBritish countess (1861–1938)
- Mimi Maynardb. 1901USAmerican actress
- Don Maynardb. 1935USAmerican football player (1935–2022)
- Joyce Maynardb. 1953USAmerican writer
- Paul Maynardb. 1975GBBritish politician (born 1975)
- Brittany Maynardb. 1984USAmerican activist
- James Maynardb. 1987GBBritish mathematician
- Conor Maynardb. 1992GBBritish singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 65 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5K | #3,904 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 30 | #3,904 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1930 | 5 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2013 | 1 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2008 | 1 | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Maynard mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Norman male personal name Mainard, ultimately Germanic, literally ‘strength-strong’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Maynard have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 36 thousand people named Maynard, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maynard.
- Where is Maynard most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Maynard is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 135 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Maynard?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmeɪnɝd/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Maynard?
- In the etymology graph, Maynerd is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Maynard?
- In the United States, the national register counted 36,460 people named Maynard in 2010, about 1 in 9.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Maynard compared with other names?
- In the United States, Maynard is the 720th 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/maynardThe 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, “Maynard” — the 720th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.