Mayo

Where Mayo comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Mayo.

  • Vowel-ended
Mayo through the years
  1. 1893
    Debut at its peak, #768
    #768 among boys with 8 babies in the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1894
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 1904
    Mayo Methot born
    American actress
  4. 1990
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
  5. 1996
    Mayo Doko born
    Japanese association football player
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Mayo Doko · Japanese association football player, born 1996
  • Mayo Methot · American actress, 1904–1951
  • Mayo Okamoto · Japanese singer-songwriter, born 1974
  • Mayo Thompson · American musician and visual artist, born 1944
  • Mayo Yamaura · Japanese female curler, born 1984

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.