Mayur
Mayur was last recorded in 2017, when 6 babies were given it; 197 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mayur by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mayur mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mayur is “a male given name from Sanskrit used in India.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit मयूर (mayūra).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mayur?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,697, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1988, the peak
Mayur peaked in 1988, when 13 boys were given it, #3,817 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 6 | #11,697 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,529 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,696 | 3.1 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,553 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,500 | 3.4 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,591 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #12,092 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 7 | #9,057 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,092 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,883 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 9 | #6,649 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,935 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,898 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,418 | 3.1 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,366 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,657 | 4.4 |
| 1988 | 13 | #3,817 | 6.8 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,461 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,351 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,248 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,068 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,940 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,401 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,908 | 2.8 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,531 | 3.7 |
| 1975 | 5 | #6,002 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,723 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mayur a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mayur has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mayur: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mayur, and how old are they?
An estimated 189 Americans named Mayur and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 23 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,245 people named Mayur (15 women and girls, 1,230 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 191 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6.5 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
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mayur
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.