Maijor
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- MAY-jer
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #12,003 for boys
Maijor is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “greater”. In 2025 it ranked 12,003rd for boys in the US (5 babies).
What does Maijor mean?
English: respelling of Major, from Latin major 'greater'
“greater”
Is Maijor a girl's or a boy's name?
Maijor 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 Maijor in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 12,003rd among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 340,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 51% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 5 boys in the US were named Maijor, making it the 12,003rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,536th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 23 boys. It first appears in the records in 2012.
It has been given to fewer boys each year for the last 6 years. 2025 had the fewest boys named Maijor since it first appeared, in 2012.
Half of all the boys named Maijor in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 430 boys in the US were given Maijor 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.
Maijor in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,003 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,307 |
| 2023 | 15 | #5,922 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,629 |
| 2021 | 20 | #4,776 |
| 2020 | 21 | #4,536 |
| 2019 | 23 | #4,333 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,766 |
| 2017 | 18 | #5,107 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,314 |
| 2015 | 18 | #5,056 |
| 2014 | 12 | #6,627 |
| 2013 | 18 | #4,978 |
| 2012 | 7 | #9,703 |
Names like Maijor
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Valor, Ledger, Archer, Wylder, Ares, Baylor, Thiago, Sawyer, Luca, Wilder, Truce, Brewer
Other spellings of Maijor
Names related to Maijor
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, “Maijor: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/maijor, updated 20 October 2026.