Mayo — boys' name

What the Data Says About Mayo

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,236 babies named Mayo between 1893 and 2005, spanning 113 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Mayo currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2005. The name reached its historical peak in 1915, when 41 babies received it in a single year. Mayo is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 256 additional births since 1902.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mayo performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 302 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Mayo shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 32 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Mayo in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mayo in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,236 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.