Mayar

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled May-Ar in PH Philippines.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Mayar is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Hindi given name2.1K records spelled Mayar12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Türkiye, Syria

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written Måÿār, Mãýâř, Máyär, Mâyâr, Mãýäř

• Spanish given name1.3K records spelled Mayar26 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, Argentina, Brazil, United States

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written May-Ar, Máyar, Mãyãr, Mâyâr, Māyär

• Turkish given name720 records spelled Mayar5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, Iraq, United States

  Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen

  Also written Maýar, Mãÿâr

• Norwegian Bokmål given name340 records spelled Mayar6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, Syria, United States

  Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Norwegian

  Also written Mayãr

• a separate given name221 records spelled Mayar2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Pakistan

  Also written Māyār

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●

Mayar is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Asturian, to crush, grind

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Javanese, to pay for

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• In Spanish, to miaow

  as a word·kaikki.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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 21 years between 2003–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Mayar al-Beblawib. 1972EGEgyptian actress
• Mayar El Gheityb. 1992EGEgyptian actress (born 1992)
• Mayar Luis Ganoza YupanquiPEPeruvian pharmacist

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 227 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mayar?

We estimate roughly 2.5 thousand people bear Mayar (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Mayar have the most bearers?

Mayar is most frequently recorded in Egypt, where it is most often spelled mayar.

How common is Mayar compared with other names?

In Egypt, Mayar is the 386th most common given name of 72,792 given names recorded there.

Is Mayar a male or female name?

Mayar is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.