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Maynard

#10,321 in 2025Boys' name

English surname transferred into given-name use

Maynard has been given to 14,940 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #10,321 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1922, with 398 recorded.

Babies named Maynard, 2025

1 in 474,000

Maynard over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maynard: meaning, origin, and history

English surname transferred into given-name use

English surname transfer

What Maynard means

Maynard is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Maynard is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈmeɪ.nəɹd/ and /ˈmeɪ.nəd/ for Maynard.

The naming story behind Maynard

Maynard is a given name adopted from English surname. This establishes the immediate naming route. A surname transfer is different from a direct translation of the modern given-name spelling; the family name may have its own earlier derivation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14,918 boys were recorded with the name Maynard between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 398 in 1922; its best national rank was #279 in 1922.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,387 in 2020 to #10,321 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,648 in 2015 to #10,321 in 2025.

In the United States, 22 girls were recorded with the name Maynard between 1919 and 1930. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1919; its best national rank was #4,618 in 1919.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Maynard?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,321
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maynard sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maynard. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maynards were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maynard was born before 1932 — so the typical Maynard is around 93 today.

Median birth year
1932
About 93 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
24.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,253
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1920s — 24.5% of all recorded uses (3,649).

Is Maynard rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,575
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,934
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,673
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.44×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
1.8%
Peak was 1922 (398)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
48.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#279
1922

Spellings of Maynard

Maynard is the most-used spelling, taking 56.0% of the 26,651 babies given a near-identical spelling.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Maynard is used

Across 1910–2025, Maynard was most concentrated in Maine — about 1 in 1,471 boys, against 1 in 15,144 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

068 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maine1 in 1,471
  2. 2North Dakota1 in 1,667
  3. 3South Dakota1 in 1,724
  4. 4Minnesota1 in 3,125
  5. 5Iowa1 in 4,000
  6. 6Nebraska1 in 4,545
  7. 7Wisconsin1 in 4,762
  8. 8Virginia1 in 6,250

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Maynard has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maynard around the world

Where Maynard ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2010–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2013–2013
    #2,635
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1951–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Maynard

People whose public names include Maynard, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Maynard in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Maynard. Linked forms have their own page here.

Meinhard

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Maynard by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,321
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,934
Best rank ever
#279
1922
Peak year
1922
398 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
14,918
Count in 2025
7

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,618
1919
Peak year
1919
6 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
1930
All-time count
22
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Maynard

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Maynard

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Maynard, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Maynard

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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