Majors

surname · Latin script

Meaning: variant of Major with post-medieval excrescent -s

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

Majors is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States
  • CACanada
  • 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.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

variant of Major with post-medieval excrescent -s. Makefield

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.

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)

Majors 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, ‘son of Major’.

    as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

  • In Swedish, indefinite genitive singular of major

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

  • In German, genitive singular of Major

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

  • In Latvian, dienesta pakāpe daudzu valstu armijās (Latvijas armijā - dienesta pakāpe starp kapteini un pulkvežleitnantu)

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, karavīrs, kam ir šāda dienesta pakāpe

    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)

18001850190019502000Alexander Majors, b. 1814Monroe Alpheus Majors, b. 1864Margaret Bonds, b. 1913Johnny Majors, b. 1935Lee Majors, b. 1939Farrah Fawcett, b. 1947Jeff Majors, b. 1955Selina Majors, b. 1967Jonathan Majors, b. 1989Austin Majors, b. 1995

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Majors
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020109.7K#3,650
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020209.6K#3,600
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020009.5K#3,448
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—103#12,492
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—51—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—16#47,599
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—4#62,134
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—1#19,108
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Majors come from?
variant of Major with post-medieval excrescent -s. Makefield Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
How do you pronounce Majors?
A machine transcription gives /madʒɔz/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Majors mean?
Recorded meaning: variant of Major with post-medieval excrescent -s.
In which country does Majors have the most bearers?
Majors is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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