Mayo
Mayo was last recorded in 2005, when 5 babies were given it; 1,492 Americans have been recorded with it between 1893 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mayo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mayo?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,678, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
54 babies in 1921, the peak
Mayo peaked in 1921, when 54 babies were given it (38 boys, #1,172 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | under 5 | 5 | #12,678 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 5 | #12,090 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 6 | #8,092 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 7 | #7,011 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 8 | #6,207 | |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,737 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 5 | #7,726 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 6 | #6,247 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 6 | #6,067 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 6 | #5,966 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | under 5 | 14 | #3,152 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 8 | #4,797 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 7 | #5,175 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 5 | #6,437 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 6 | #5,590 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 7 | #4,749 | |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,042 | 6 | #4,883 |
| 1972 | under 5 | 6 | #4,775 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 9 | #3,560 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 9 | #3,436 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 9 | #3,239 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 7 | #3,568 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 8 | #3,151 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 7 | #3,429 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 6 | #3,889 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 8 | #3,235 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 9 | #2,977 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 14 | #2,299 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 9 | #3,006 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 12 | #2,495 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 9 | #2,960 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 19 | #1,874 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 14 | #2,226 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 15 | #2,106 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 10 | #2,680 | |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,233 | 12 | #2,355 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,329 | 9 | #2,808 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,223 | 12 | #2,328 |
| 1950 | under 5 | 14 | #2,082 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 11 | #2,411 | |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,751 | 9 | #2,723 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,107 | 14 | #2,135 |
| 1946 | under 5 | 17 | #1,793 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 12 | #2,089 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 9 | #2,571 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 19 | #1,677 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 22 | #1,519 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 10 | #2,437 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 16 | #1,776 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 20 | #1,517 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 19 | #1,596 | |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,107 | 19 | #1,616 |
| 1936 | under 5 | 12 | #2,141 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 16 | #1,805 | |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,751 | 18 | #1,712 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,057 | 19 | #1,622 |
| 1932 | under 5 | 20 | #1,630 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 23 | #1,477 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 31 | #1,294 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 23 | #1,550 | |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,545 | 30 | #1,345 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,134 | 26 | #1,499 |
| 1926 | under 5 | 18 | #1,881 | |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,723 | 32 | #1,293 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,914 | 29 | #1,401 |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,680 | 33 | #1,267 |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,449 | 37 | #1,191 |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,345 | 38 | #1,172 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,270 | 36 | #1,220 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,462 | 25 | #1,471 |
| 1918 | 10 | #3,164 | 27 | #1,392 |
| 1917 | 10 | #3,001 | 33 | #1,194 |
| 1916 | 15 | #2,196 | 29 | #1,256 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,488 | 41 | #990 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,214 | 26 | #1,147 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,271 | 17 | #1,297 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,280 | 14 | #1,326 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,725 | under 5 | |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,659 | 6 | #1,527 |
| 1909 | under 5 | 8 | #1,129 | |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,845 | 6 | #1,187 |
| 1904 | under 5 | 6 | #1,160 | |
| 1903 | under 5 | 5 | #1,243 | |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,726 | 5 | #1,249 |
| 1895 | under 5 | 8 | #840 | |
| 1893 | under 5 | 8 | #809 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Mayo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,492 Americans recorded as Mayo, 17% are girls and 83% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Mayo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mayo, and how old are they?
An estimated 384 Americans named Mayo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (26% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 50 and 76. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 785 people named Mayo (239 women and girls, 546 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 478 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,881 babies since 1880, Mayo is the most given (79% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mayo
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Mayo and names like it
- Compare Mayo and MauiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMayo peaked in 1921.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mayo since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Mayo.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Mayo alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.