Mayo
Mayo is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 809th, in 1893.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191541 births
- Best rank
- #809in 1893
- Since 1893
- 1,492people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,236 boys have been named Mayo in the United States since 1893, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 41 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 41 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1931, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 3 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Mayo is used for both sexes: 17% of its bearers are girls (256), most of them born around 1921.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Mayo | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 16 | |
| 1900s | 30 | |
| 1910s | 218 | |
| 1920s | 302 | |
| 1930s | 197 | |
| 1940s | 139 | |
| 1950s | 126 | |
| 1960s | 77 | |
| 1970s | 55 | |
| 1980s | 45 | |
| 1990s | 21 | |
| 2000s | 10 |
In 1915, its biggest year
Mayo was the 990th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1915 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Mayo
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Clovispeak 1917
- Cletuspeak 1922
- Haroldpeak 1924
- Murlpeak 1919
- Russelpeak 1920
- Maynardpeak 1922
- Arvelpeak 1921
- Bufordpeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.