Maimon

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from the male personal name Maymon, derived from Arabic maymun ‘luck’, ‘good fortune’

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/maɪmɑn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Maimon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
  • ILIsrael≈1 in 5K
  • CYCyprus≈1 in 40K

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.

Israel (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,700 people, est.

Sources
165 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Israel, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from the male personal name Maymon, derived from Arabic maymun ‘luck’, ‘good fortune’. Ashkenazic Jews started to use this personal name due to the fame of the medieval Sephardic religious scholar Moses ben Maimon (Maimonides).

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Maimon 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.

Where Maimon is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IL Israel≈1,700 est.≈1 in 5K—Maimon46
US United States1941 in 1.7M300Maimon165
ES Spain1671 in 299K167—4
MY Malaysia≈110 est.≈1 in 292K—Maimon15
FR France≈110 est.≈1 in 648K3——
FI Finland311 in 180K31—2
CY Cyprus≈31 est.≈1 in 40K—Maimon4
EE Estonia≈5 est.≈1 in 234Klisted—1

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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

Maimon is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Argentina

    Languages: French, Spanish

    Also written Maïmon

  • Hebrew surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, Tunisia, Iraq, United States

    Also written מימון, ממון, Mimun, Maymon, מיימון

  • Thai surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, Israel, United States

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Mairon, ไมมอน, ไหมร้อน, ไม้หมอน, ไหมรอน

46 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1700180019002000Salomon Maimon, b. 1754Alexander Ziskind Maimon, b. 1809Moshe Maimon, b. 1860Yehuda Leib Maimon, b. 1875Ada Maimon, b. 1893Moshe Maimon, b. 1924David Maimon, b. 1929Oded Maimon, b. 1951Israel Maimon, b. 1966

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

Formalלכבוד מר Maimon,Dear Mr Maimon, (English)
Informalשלום Maimon,Hi Maimon, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 22 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Maimon
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020300#70,358
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010194#94,311
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000176#96,033
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—167#18,875
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—167#18,862
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—31#33,974
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196111—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19717—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19517—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19317—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19816—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19415—

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Maimon mean, and where does it come from?
from the male personal name Maymon, derived from Arabic maymun ‘luck’, ‘good fortune’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Maimon?
A machine transcription gives /maɪmɑn/ (IPA) for Hebrew.
In which country does Maimon have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Maimon in Israel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maimon.
How common is the name Maimon?
In the United States, the national register counted 194 people named Maimon in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.

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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, “Maimon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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