Maine

loc · Latin script

Meaning: topographic name from Old French maine ‘dwelling’, ‘residence’, ‘abode’, or a habitational name from any of numerous places so named

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

Maine is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States
  • AUAustralia
  • GBUnited Kingdom

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. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
294 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

topographic name from Old French maine ‘dwelling’, ‘residence’, ‘abode’, or a habitational name from any of numerous places so named.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Often considered alongside

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Maine, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Where in the world(measured from records)

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

Where Maine is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—3.6KMaine294
GB United Kingdom——Maine109
CA Canada—1Maine69
AU Australia—1Maine75
RU Russia——Maine8
BR Brazil—1.6K—1
SE Sweden—394—10
AR Argentina—273——

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; Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)

Maine is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Portugal, Angola

    Also written Maíne, Mainé, Mainê, Maïné

  • French given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Maïne, Mainé, Maïné, Mäinë, Maíne

  • Hindi name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Maíne, Mainé

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Mainé, Maíne

61 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)

Maine 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 English, A former province of Pays de la Loire, France. Capital: Le Mans.

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

  • In English, Frangoise d'Aubigne, Madame de,

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, Maintenon [Aubigne]

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, French noblewoman

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, river, France

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

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)

1700180019002000Maine de Biran, b. 1766Henry Sumner Maine, b. 1822Frank Maine, b. 1937Connie Maine, b. 1942Mark Maine, b. 1958Vida Maine, b. 1960John Maine, b. 1981Brise Maine, b. 1988Katherine Maine, b. 1997

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 41 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Maine
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103.6K#9,104
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.5K#9,092
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020003.4K#8,776
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—296#26,717
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—273—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—4#61,999
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 Maine mean, and where does it come from?
topographic name from Old French maine ‘dwelling’, ‘residence’, ‘abode’, or a habitational name from any of numerous places so named. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Maine have the most bearers?
Maine is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled maine.

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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, “Maine”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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