Maejor
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- MAY-jur
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #12,003 for boys
Maejor is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “greater”. In 2025 it ranked 12,003rd for boys in the US (5 babies).
What does Maejor mean?
English: probably a respelling of Major, an English word from Latin maior
“greater”
Probably a respelling of Major, the English word and military rank, from Latin maior, meaning greater.
Is Maejor a girl's or a boy's name?
Maejor is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Maejor in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 12,003rd among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 340,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 5 boys in the US were named Maejor, making it the 12,003rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,548th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 25 boys. It first appears in the records in 2012.
Half of all the boys named Maejor in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 430 boys in the US were given Maejor or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #616, up from #12,003 for this spelling alone.
Maejor in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,003 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 5 | #12,232 |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,322 |
| 2021 | 6 | #10,794 |
| 2020 | 7 | #9,548 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,138 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,032 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 7 | #9,659 |
| 2015 | 25 | #4,078 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,303 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,113 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,044 |
Names like Maejor
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Valor, Ledger, Archer, Wylder, Ares, Baylor, Truce, Thiago, Mercer, Wilder, Luca, Brewer
Other spellings of Maejor
Names related to Maejor
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Maejor: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/maejor, updated 20 October 2026.