The most famous "Mayflower" is the Pilgrim ship Mayflower. It has inspired a number of namesakes:

  • USS Mayflower - three ships: screw tug, presidential yacht, lighthouse tender
  • HMCS Mayflower - WWII corvette
  • Mayflower - 1886 America's Cup yacht

  • Mayflower - two blimps

  • Mayflower Hotel
  • Mayflower Transit, a moving company
  • Mayflower Theatre

Mayflower is also a place in the State of Arkansas in the United States of America. See Mayflower, Arkansas.

(See http://www.sail1620.org/history/namesakes.html for more.)

In botany, several different plants are called "mayflower":

  • Hawthorn
  • Hepatica
  • Trailing arbutus
  • Maianthemum canadense