Given name & surname

Maes

Maes is a surname. It is used in Dutch.

Meaning & origin

A reliable meaning for Maes isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2020. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Maes through the years

Babies since 1880
10
10 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
2020
5 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
—
Too few births to compare
01232025Highest share 20200.0
Maes in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2020–2025, per million boys 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 boys is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,923 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.

Maes’s family of names

In French usage, Maes as a surname has a related form in Maas. In Greek usage, Maes as a surname is a transliteration of Μάες.

Walk Maes’s family in the name graph

MaesΜάεςMaas

Inner ring: spellings · outer: 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 1

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

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Similar names

If you love Maes, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Modern

Dhaksh

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Modern

Mathyus

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Modern

Taves

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Arabic · Modern

Mahmud

“one who is praiseworthy”

11Very rareSteady

>99% boys

Modern

Laxus

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Gaelic · Modern

Macrae

“the son of Ray”

13Very rareRising fast

>99% boys

Modern

Amaj

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Modern

Moeez

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Sibling ideas

Names that share Maes’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

A brother for Maes