Maó
loc · Latin script
Maó is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 5,565 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Mandarin 毛 (Máo).
- USUnited States1 in 60K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 60K
- ESSpain1 in 60K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 219 (measured from records)
- 1 in 60K (inferred from the name graph)
5,565 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mao in US United States, AR Argentina, ES Spain.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Mandarin 毛 (Máo).
Cited for this meaning 6
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Maó is found
(measured from records)Maó counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
5,565 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Maó is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, brick
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Maó mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Mandarin 毛 (Máo). Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and Dictionary of American Family Names and 4 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Maó?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.6 thousand people named Maó, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mao. After it come Spain, Brazil, Argentina and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Maó most common?
- Maó is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 60 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Maó?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,565 people named Maó in 2010, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ma%C3%B3The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Maó” — ranked 4588th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.