The LEMAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	8,320	3924	0.003	31
United States (1880 census)	677	7566	0.001	14
Change since 1880	+7643	+3642	+0.002	+17
Other Countries
Australia	25	44430	0	2
United Kingdom	72	25115	0	2

Top States for LEMAY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	768	1107	0.012	121
Florida	615	3180	0.004	38
New Hampshire	563	245	0.046	456
California	479	5627	0.001	14
Wisconsin	379	1665	0.007	71
Top States for LEMAY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Hampshire	563	245	0.046	456
Delaware	204	595	0.026	260
Maine	306	798	0.024	240
Vermont	127	761	0.021	209
Rhode Island	173	806	0.017	165

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called LEMAY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called LEMAY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called LEMAY in Massachusetts than any other state, but you are more likely to find a LEMAY by picking someone at random in New Hampshire than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of LEMAY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LEMAY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the LEMAY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of LEMAY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	285	3.43
Mixed Race	125	1.5
White (Hispanic)	109	1.31
Asian/Pacific	52	0.63
Native American/Alaskan	51	0.61
White (Caucasian)	7,698	92.52

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the LEMAY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to LEMAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LEMAY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.