Maju
loc · Latin script
Meaning: to go forward, to advance
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Maju is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 245K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 3.5M
- PLPoland1 in 9.6M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- 1 in 245K (inferred from the name graph)
864 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Majú in BR Brazil.
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)
to go forward, to advance
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maju 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 864 | 1 in 245K | 864 | Majú | 36 |
| NL Netherlands | 5 | 1 in 3.5M | 5 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 4 | 1 in 9.6M | 4 | — | — |
| IN India | — | — | 43 | — | 4 |
| SL Sierra Leone | — | — | 2 | — | — |
864 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022, counting the spelling maju. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); NEC/ECSL — 2012 Councillor and Ordinary-MP/PCMP results tables. 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)
Maju 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 Malay, progressive
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dsb, third-person plural present of měś
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, locative/vocative singular of maj
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, partitive plural of maja
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, synonym of maajoukkue
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Mayu Shinjob. 1973JPnot in their usual nameJapanese manga artist
- Mayu Kotonob. 1980JPnot in their usual nameJapanese pornographic actress
- Mayu Sakaib. 1982JPnot in their usual namemanga artist
- Mayu Yamaguchib. 1983JPnot in their usual nameJapanese legal scholar, international lawyer, and professor (1983-)
- Mayu Nozomib. 1989JPnot in their usual nameJapanese AV actress
- Mayu Satōb. 1993JPnot in their usual nameJapanese AV actress
- Mayu Watanabeb. 1994JPnot in their usual nameJapanese singer
- Mayu Matsuokab. 1995JPnot in their usual nameJapanese actress
- Mayu Yoshiokab. 1995JPnot in their usual nameJapanese actor, seiyū and screenwriter
- Mayu Iinob. 1999JPnot in their usual nameJapanese voice actress
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 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 864 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 857 | #9,135 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 690 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 174 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 134 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 40 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1994 | 39 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1995 | 27 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1992 | 21 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1993 | 18 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1991 | 13 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1993 | 10 | — |
Reference works 1
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Maju mean, and where does it come from?
- to go forward, to advance Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Maju have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 864 people named Maju, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled majú.
- Where is Maju most common?
- Maju is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 245 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Maju?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 864 people named Maju in 2022, about 1 in 245 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Maju?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/majuThe 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, “Maju”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.