Given name & surname
Mayo
“from the yew-tree plain”
Mayo is used as a given name and a surname. One interpretation is “from the yew-tree plain.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “from the yew-tree plain.”
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1893. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mayo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,492
- 1,236 boys · 256 girls
- Most popular year
- 1921
- 54 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2005. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 41 in 1915. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 785 as a first name in 2020; 33,564 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.
Mayo’s family of names
Mayo has a related form in Maeyo. Mayo has a related form in Maeyoe. Mayo has a related form in Maioh.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Mayo
- Mayo DokoJapanese association football playerborn 1996
- Mayo MethotAmerican actress (1904–1951)
- Mayo OkamotoJapanese singer-songwriterborn 1974
- Mayo ThompsonAmerican musician and visual artist (born 1944)
- Mayo YamauraJapanese female curlerborn 1984
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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