Maynard

Where Maynard comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Maynard.

Maynard through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #526 among boys, with 12 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1922
    Peak, #279
    398 babies named Maynard, the most in any year.
  3. 1928
    Maynard Ferguson born
    Canadian jazz musician and bandleader
  4. 1930
    Maynard Solomon born
    American music executive and musicologist; co-founder of Vanguard Records, music producer, and writer on music
  5. 1944
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #443.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Maynard Ferguson · Canadian jazz musician and bandleader, 1928–2006
  • Maynard Solomon · American music executive and musicologist; co-founder of Vanguard Records, music producer, and writer on music, 1930–2020
  • Maynard Dixon · American painter, 1875–1946
  • Maynard V. Olson · American scientist, born 1943
  • Maynard Jackson · American politician and attorney, 1938–2003

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.