Given name & surname
Mainor
“one who is brave and strong”
Mainor is a variant of Maynard. One German interpretation is “one who is brave and strong.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Mainor is a variant of Maynard. One German interpretation is “one who is brave and strong.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Mainor is a variant of Maynard. An origin associated with Maynard is Germanic.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1991. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Mainor is a variant of Maynard. The history of Maynard gives this family its wider story. Maynard’s naming history includes the use of a family name as a given name.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Mainor through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 140
- 140 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,195 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,195 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 14 in 2007. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 635 as a first name in 2020; 1,116 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.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
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.
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