Etymology

Maynard

M3A1Y4N1A1R1D2

Today it means: A surname. Full definition →

Old Dutch meginhard
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Old Dutch · derived frommeginhard
  2. English todayMaynard

From a given name, Norman Mainard, borrowed from Old Dutch meginhard from Proto-Germanic *maginą (“might”) + *harduz (“hard, strong”)

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.