Mayo

Where Mayo comes from

Mayo 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.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1893
    Debut at its peak, #768
    #768 among boys with 8 babies — 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 it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  5. 1996
    Mayo Doko born
    Japanese association football player
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

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.