Majour
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- MAY-jer
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #6,442 for boys
Majour is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “greater”. In 2025 it ranked 6,442nd for boys in the US (13 babies).
What does Majour mean?
English: respelling of Major, from Latin major 'greater'
“greater”
Is Majour a girl's or a boy's name?
Majour is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Majour in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,442among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 13about 1 in 130,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steadyup 8% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 13 boys in the US were named Majour, making it the 6,442nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,447th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 23 boys. It first appears in the records in 2012.
2025 had fewer boys named Majour than any year since 2017.
Half of all the boys named Majour in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 430 boys in the US were given Majour or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #616, up from #6,442 for this spelling alone.
Majour in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,442 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,439 |
| 2023 | 23 | #4,452 |
| 2022 | 18 | #5,211 |
| 2021 | 22 | #4,490 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,447 |
| 2019 | 18 | #5,149 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,766 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,334 |
| 2016 | 15 | #5,785 |
| 2015 | 14 | #5,995 |
| 2014 | 12 | #6,627 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,598 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,267 |
Names like Majour
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Musa Zahir Zamir Mahir Zymir Azai Khaza Azir Zayan Ahmir Azaiah Zayd
Other spellings of Majour
Names related to Majour
More English names
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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, “Majour: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/majour, updated 20 October 2026.