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.
- 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)
- Sources
- 294 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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.
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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3.6K | Maine | 294 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | Maine | 109 |
| CA Canada | — | 1 | Maine | 69 |
| AU Australia | — | 1 | Maine | 75 |
| RU Russia | — | — | Maine | 8 |
| 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 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)
- Maine de Biranb. 1766FRFrench philosopher (1766-1824)
- Henry Sumner Maineb. 1822GBBritish jurist and historian (1822–1888)
- Frank Maineb. 1937CACanadian politician
- Connie Maineb. 1942USAmerican politician
- Mark Maineb. 1958USAmerican film producer
- Vida Maineb. 1960USAmerican film producer
- John Maineb. 1981USAmerican baseball player
- Brise Maineb. 1988USAmerican actress
- Katherine Maineb. 1997CACanadian cyclist
- Karen MaineUSwriter and director
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.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.6K | #9,104 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.5K | #9,092 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.4K | #8,776 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 296 | #26,717 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 273 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 4 | #61,999 |
| US United States | wru 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.
What do you want to know about Maine?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maineThe 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, “Maine”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.