Mayó
surname · Latin script
Mayó is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Derived from Irish Maigh Eo.
- ESSpain1 in 7.1K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 9.4K
- UYUruguay1 in 10K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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
- 57 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.1K (inferred from the name graph)
35,228 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mayo in US United States, 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)Derived from Irish Maigh Eo
Cited for this meaning 6
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Mayó is found
(measured from records)Mayó 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 | 35,228 | 1 in 9.4K | 35K | Mayo | 57 |
| ES Spain | 7,091 | 1 in 7.1K | 7.1K | Mayo | 11 |
| AR Argentina | 1,867 | 1 in 24K | 1.9K | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 449 | 1 in 472K | 449 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 328 | 1 in 10K | 328 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 67 | 1 in 125K | 67 | — | — |
35,228 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 Mayó mean, and where does it come from?
- Derived from Irish Maigh Eo Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and Dictionary of American Family Names and 4 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Mayó?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 35 thousand people named Mayó, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mayo. After it come Spain, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Mayó most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mayó is densest in Spain — about 1 in 7.1 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mayó?
- In the United States, the national register counted 35,228 people named Mayó in 2010, about 1 in 9.4 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/may%C3%B3The 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, “Mayó”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.