Mayfair Name Meaning, Origin & Popularity

About Mayfair

A well-to-do London neighborhood, English surname, and potential route to the nickname May. Mayfair has everything going for it, and yet it couldn't be rarer.

Mayfair for boys

Mayfair is a posh London neighborhood, which should make it ripe for adoption as a baby name. After all, Americans love to use neighborhood names from our biggest city— meet Bronx, Harlem, and Brooklyn! Maybe it can be chalked up to cultural differences, but there aren't many babies named Mayfair on either side of the pond.

Pronounced MAY-fair.