# Major (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/major/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 21,749 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 21,673 / 76 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 55, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1923 | 5 | 5,418 |
| 1937 | 6 | 4,093 |
| 1939 | 5 | 4,667 |
| 2013 | 5 | 18,254 |
| 2014 | 7 | 14,023 |
| 2017 | 8 | 12,339 |
| 2018 | 11 | 9,569 |
| 2019 | 6 | 14,908 |
| 2020 | 8 | 11,738 |
| 2021 | 5 | 16,793 |
| 2023 | 5 | 16,702 |
| 2024 | 5 | 16,784 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 197 | 990 |
| 2012 | 556 | 486 |
| 2013 | 854 | 366 |
| 2014 | 934 | 350 |
| 2015 | 913 | 361 |
| 2016 | 990 | 348 |
| 2017 | 1,042 | 331 |
| 2018 | 944 | 350 |
| 2019 | 948 | 351 |
| 2020 | 913 | 349 |
| 2021 | 759 | 411 |
| 2022 | 705 | 441 |
| 2023 | 579 | 514 |
| 2024 | 491 | 582 |
| 2025 | 407 | 670 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 3 | 3,849 |
| 2016 | 3 | 4,810 |
| 2017 | 7 | 2,734 |
| 2018 | 14 | 1,683 |
| 2019 | 5 | 3,411 |
| 2020 | 3 | 4,608 |
| 2021 | 6 | 3,017 |
| 2022 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2023 | 7 | 2,813 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,270 |

## People named Major

- Major Owens, American politician (1936-2013)
- Major Harris, American R&B singer (1947–2012)
- Major Holley, American jazz upright bassist (1924–1990)
- Major Booth, Cricket player of England. (1886-1916)
- Marshall Taylor, American racing cyclist (1878-1932)
- Big Maceo Merriweather, American Chicago blues pianist and singer (1905–1953)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.