The name Major comes from an English surname that was originally derived form of the Germanic name Malger meaning ‘council spear’. It can also be given in reference to the English word ‘major’.
Major is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Major isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Major ranks 354. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 5 were named Major. In the entire USA, approximately 14,949 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Major. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
The name Major comes from an English surname that was originally derived form of the Germanic name Malger meaning ‘council spear’. It can also be given in reference to the English word ‘major’.
Major is also... a military rank throughout the world. Additionally, it is used in some police forces and other paramilitary rank structures, such as the New York State Police.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Major annualy. This means that there have been boys named Major who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Major have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Major even more than any other time: in 1881, it holds its present record at rank #231 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Major was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Major has never been ranked higher than #231. In 2022, he rivaled the 419 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 701 boys named Major were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Major were born, there have been 48 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names – 6.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J and A.
With five letters, the name Major is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.2% of all boys' names that begin with an M, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which boys’ name with M is the most common... the answer is Michael.
If your name is Major and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Major, you can simply say:
Mouse
Apple
Joker
Orange
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Major
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
A
J
O
R
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
M
A
J
O
R
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Major sounds like this:
