Maines

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Maines is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Sint Maarten it is the 2nd most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: (i) 'Person who lives on the main farm on an estate'; (ii) a different form of Main.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 79K◐
  • PHPhilippines1 in 139K
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 144K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈4.3K ●

across 6 countries

Sources
272 ●

38K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 79K ◐

United States

Meaning & origin●

(i) 'Person who lives on the main farm on an estate'; (ii) a different form of Main.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Maines is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—4,19631K rec.1 in 79K4.2KMaines272
PH Philippines—1,6881.4K rec.——Maines20
GB United Kingdom—1,6141.6K rec.——Maines49
CA Canada—569573 rec.——Maines30
AU Australia—348337 rec.——Maines17
IT Italy—327325 rec.——Maines12
MX Mexico—265135 rec.—66Maines21
DE Germany—221219 rec.——Maines15
SX Sint Maarten#2157348 rec.——Maines1
AR Argentina—135140 rec.——Maines17
JM Jamaica—9696 rec.——Maines2
IL Israel—8991 rec.——Maines3

Roughly 4.2K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 79K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English34K80%
  • Spanish2.3K5%
  • 1.1K3%
  • Portuguese5741%
  • French5641%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English34,41080%
Spanish2,2775%
1,0883%
Portuguese5741%
French5641%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Maines is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname608 records spelled Maines2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines, Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Maïnes

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Maines is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Estonian, inessive singular of maine

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, genitive singular of Main

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In cim, neuter of main

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In enm, plural of mayn

    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.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Rachel Maines, b. 1950Dan Maines, b. 1971Natalie Maines, b. 1974Nicole Maines, b. 1997

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 20 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Maines
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020104.2K#7,891
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020004.1K#7,568
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.8K#8,298
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—57#32,130
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—48#107,840
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—30#41,751
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202229—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—25#96,655
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—22#59,405
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—22—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—17#91,572
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—10#48,004

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 38 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Maines?
We estimate roughly 4.3 thousand people bear Maines (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Maines have the most bearers?
We estimate about 4.2 thousand people bear Maines in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled maines.
How common is Maines compared with other names?
In Sint Maarten, Maines is the 2nd most common surname of 300 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Maines mean?
Recorded meaning: (i) 'Person who lives on the main farm on an estate'; (ii) a different form of Main.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Maines” — the 2nd most common surname in Sint Maarten. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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