Major
in the US
There are 14,269 people with the last name "Major" in the United States.
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Meaning & History
Hungarian: from a shortened form of majorosgazda (
Polish, Czech, and Slovak: from the military rank major (derived from Latin maior ‘greater’), a word related to English mayor and the German surname
Catalan and southern French (Occitan): from major ‘major’ (Latin maior ‘greater’), denoting a prominent or important person or the firstborn son of a family.
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): variant of

