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Name Maj

Meaning:

maybe wet nurse, midwife

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About the name Maj in particular

Gender:	female
Languages of use:	Scandinavian
Is short form of:	Maja
US 2024 rank:	not in the Top 1000; other popularity lists see below
Similarly written:	Maj, Kaj, Kaj, Mac, Mad, Mae, Maé, Mai, Maï, Maja Details

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About Maja, the group of names with the same origin as Maj

Meaning/translation:	maybe wet nurse, midwife
Language of origin:	Latin
Info about origin:	in Greek mythology Maia is the most beautiful of the Pleiades and the mother of Mercury
	the name Maia maybe means wet nurse, midwife
	in Roman mythology Maja (later seen as identical with the Greek Maia) was a Goddess of fertility and of the growth in Spring
	the name of the month May is derived from the Roman Maja
Words:	maia = the wet nurse, the midwife Old Greek
	mai- = big, great Latin
	der Mai = May (the month of May) German
Topics:	Greek mythology, Roman mythology
Variants' top ranks:	1:Maja Sweden 2010, 2:Maya Greenland 2019, 12:Maia Montevideo 2012, 30:Mya Canada/BC 2011, 93:Maj Sweden 2014, 993:Maiya USA 2000
Somehow related to:	May
Name variants:	Maia, Maiya, Maj, Maja, Maya, Mya Sortable list Details

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Series	Graph	Rankings
Sweden prevalence		2014 93