Given name & surname

Maday

Maday is a surname from Hungarian.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Maday comes from Hungarian.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1993. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Maday through the years

Babies since 1880
118
0 boys · 118 girls
Most popular year
2016
16 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
−61%
Cooling
02.557.51020002025Highest share 20160.0
Maday in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1993–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 16 in 2016. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 645 as a first name in 2020; 1,082 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Maday’s family of names

In English usage, Maday as a surname has a related form in MADAI.

Walk Maday’s family in the name graph

MadayMadaiMadday

The ring: nicknames and forms.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Nicknames & forms 2

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

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Sibling ideas

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