Maida
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Maida is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A finely milled, refined and bleached wheat flour, used in making many Indian foods like samosa, chakli and bhatoora.
- ARArgentina1 in 41K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 160K
- INIndia1 in 234K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 199 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
5,665 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
A finely milled, refined and bleached wheat flour, used in making many Indian foods like samosa, chakli and bhatoora.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maida 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 5,665 | 1 in 234K | 5.7K | Maida | 20 |
| US United States | — | 2,084 | 1 in 160K | 2.5K | Maida | 199 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 6 | Maida | 31 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,115 | 1 in 41K | 1.1K | Maida | 56 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 232K | — | Maida | 15 |
| BO Bolivia | #923 | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Maida | 32 |
| SV El Salvador | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Maida | 14 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Maida | 9 |
5,665 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Maida 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.
In Italian, oriundo de Maida, da raiz gr. mágis/lat. magida; sentido ligado a concavidade do terreno
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Swedish, Maida kan vara en femininform av det arabiska namnet Majd → Majid med betydelsen ’strålande, ädel’. Det används även i Bosnien. I Sverige användes det runt förra sekelskiftet, då sannolikt med ett annat ursprung.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
habitational name from Maida in Catanzaro, Calabria.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Latvian, Gara kārts vai neliels gluds miets, ko sprauž atbalstam apiņiem, zirņiem u. c.
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Adam Joseph Maidab. 1930USCatholic cardinal
- Sal Maidab. 1948USAmerican bass guitarist (1948–2025)
- Clara Maïdab. 1963FRFrench composer
- Andrea Maidab. 1964ITItalian speedway rider
- Raine Maidab. 1970CACanadian musician
- Nono Maidab. 2011JPJapanese child actress
- Tami MaidaCAFemale American football quarterback
- Marcello Maidaresearcher
- Carmelo Massimo MaidaITresearcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 90 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 5.7K | #1,434 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.1K | #14,356 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2K | #14,129 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.9K | #14,706 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.1K | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Maida mean, and where does it come from?
- A finely milled, refined and bleached wheat flour, used in making many Indian foods like samosa, chakli and bhatoora. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Maida have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 5.7 thousand people named Maida, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maida.
- How common is the name Maida?
- In India, the national register counted 5,665 people named Maida, about 1 in 234 thousand residents.
- How common is Maida compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Maida is the 923rd most common surname of 29,432 surnames recorded there.
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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maidaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Maida” — the 923rd most common surname in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.