Máin
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Máin is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 12,776 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: From Middle English mayn, main, maine, mæin, meyn, from main (noun) (see further at etymology 2); compare Old English mægen- (“strong, main, principal”) (used in combination) and Old Norse megn, megen.
- USUnited States1 in 26K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 210K
- NLNetherlands1 in 237K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- 1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
12,776 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Main in BR Brazil, ES Spain.
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 Middle English mayn, main, maine, mæin, meyn, from main (noun) (see further at etymology 2); compare Old English mægen- (“strong, main, principal”) (used in combination) and Old Norse megn, megenn (“strong, main”). The word is cognate with Old High German megīn (“strong, mighty”) (modern German Möge, Vermögen (“power, wealth”)), and also akin to Old English magan (“to be able to”). See also may.
Cited for this meaning 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Scottish Surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
- Wiktionary
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Máin is found
(measured from records)Máin 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 | 12,776 | 1 in 26K | 13K | — | 107 |
| BR Brazil | 549 | 1 in 386K | 549 | Main | 42 |
| ES Spain | 136 | 1 in 368K | 136 | Main | 28 |
| AR Argentina | 119 | 1 in 382K | 119 | — | 32 |
| NL Netherlands | 73 | 1 in 237K | 73 | — | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 40 | 1 in 210K | 40 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 18 | 1 in 326K | 18 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 13 | 1 in 325K | 15 | — | — |
12,776 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021). 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 Máin mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English mayn, main, maine, mæin, meyn, from main (noun) (see further at etymology 2); compare Old English mægen- (“strong, main, principal”) (used in combination) and Old Norse megn, megen… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Scottish Surnames and 5 other sources.
- Is Máin a male or female name?
- Máin is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Máin?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Máin, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Brazil, Spain, Argentina and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Máin most common?
- Máin is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 26 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Máin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,776 people named Máin in 2010, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Máin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A1inThe 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, “Máin” — ranked 2629th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.