Maïn
loc · Latin script
Maïn is a 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.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 12Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 14Kfew records
- GDGrenada≈1 in 14K
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
- 379 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
12,776 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
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 US United States, CA Canada, AU Australia 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 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 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Maïn is found
(measured from records)Maïn 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 | Main | 379 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | listed | Main | 201 |
| CA Canada | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 1 | Main | 151 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Main | 146 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Main | 38 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Main | 79 |
| GD Grenada | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 1 | — | 1 |
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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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 Maïn 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Maïn?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Maïn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled main. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Maïn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,776 people named Maïn in 2010, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ma%C3%AFnThe 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, “Maïn” — ranked 2629th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.