Maias

loc · Latin script

Maias is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil.

  • PTPortugal

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. 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.

Brazil (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Record sources
24 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Maias counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Maias is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—115Maias24
PT Portugal——Maias13
CH Switzerland—4—2
AR Argentina—2—11

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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Maias is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Maïas

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Maiás

16 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Maias is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In mwl, chestnuts eaten during May Day, in belief that they will bring luck and prevent headaches in the coming year

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Estonian, Someone with a liking for sweet foods, a sweet tooth.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, accusative feminine plural of Maius

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Maias
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—115#57,034
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20244#118,617

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

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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, “Maias”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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