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Mayur

Boys' name

Peacock

Mayur has been given to 197 babies in the U.S. since 1974. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1988, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Mayur, 2017

1 in 596,000

Mayur over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mayur: meaning, origin, and history

Peacock

Sanskrit

What Mayur means

Mayur means “peacock”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Mayur is used in Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati.

Origin, language, and formation

Mayur is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 197 boys were recorded with the name Mayur between 1974 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1988; its best national rank was #3,817 in 1988.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Mayur?

Mayur had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 596,000
6 of 3,577,106 births
Among boys only
1 in 308,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
413,245 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mayur 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 2017 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 413,245 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mayur. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mayurs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mayur was born before 1994 — so the typical Mayur is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
31.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
197
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 31.5% of all recorded uses (62).

Is Mayur 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1988 (13)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,817
1988

Spellings of Mayur

Mayur is not the most common spelling — Major is, with 45.0% against Mayur's 0.41%.

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.

Mayur around the world

Where Mayur 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
    1996–2013
    #3,822
    in 2013
  • Canada
    1998–1998
    #1,731
    in 1998

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Mayur by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,817
1988
Peak year
1988
13 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
197
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mayur

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

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Sibling names for Mayur

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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