In 2025, 7 US boys were named Maynard, making it the 10,325th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,574 places from #8,751 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 9 boys named Maynard in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #279, reached in 1922. That year also had the most boys given the name: 398. For comparison, it was #5,652 in 2015 and #546 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maynard in 143 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 12 babies. In all, 14,940 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 3,660 babies named Maynard.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 132 US boys were named Maynard; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 25. In 2025 that was about 1 in 244,011 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Manard, Maynord and Maynerd are summarised on this page.