Maynard
Where Maynard comes from
Maynard hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.
Along the way
- 1880First SSA yearAlready #526 among boys — 12 babies in the first year on record.
- 1922Peak, #279398 babies named Maynard — more than any year before or since.
- 1928Maynard Ferguson bornCanadian jazz musician and bandleader
- 1930Maynard Solomon bornAmerican music executive and musicologist; co-founder of Vanguard Records, music producer, and writer on music
- 1944The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births — down to #443.
In the dictionary
No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.
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.