When Jeannie Main was born about 1835, in Riccarton, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, James Blair Main, was 21 and her mother, Janet Templeton, was 27. She died about 1837, at the age of 4.
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Scottish: from a shortened form of the Scandinavian personal name Magnus , which in Older Scots became Manus and Mane.
English (of Norman origin) and French: from the ancient Germanic personal name Ma(g)ino, Meino, from magan ‘strength, might’.
English (of Norman origin): nickname for a large man, from Old French magne, maine ‘great, big’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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