Given name & surname
Mais
“cleared land”
Mais is a surname with more than one origin.
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a German surname, it goes back to a word meaning “cleared land.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
As a German surname, it comes from Middle High German meiz.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2004. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mais through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 61
- 0 boys · 61 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #16,371 for girls
- 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 girls, ranking No. 16,371 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 10 in 2016. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 331 as a first name in 2020; 822 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.
Mais’s family of names
In English usage, Mais as a surname has a related form in Mays. In English usage, Mais as a surname has a related form in Mayes. In Greek usage, Mais as a surname is a transliteration of Μάις.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Mais
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love Mais, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.