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The MAYS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 38,914 809 0.014 144
United States (1880 census) 6,926 874 0.014 139
Change since 1880 +31988 +65 0 +5
Other Countries
Australia 337 4683 0.002 21
United Kingdom 1,179 4598 0.003 26
Top States for MAYS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 3,575 796 0.017 171
Ohio 2,949 444 0.026 260
Virginia 2,633 335 0.037 372
California 2,188 1649 0.006 65
Tennessee 2,133 438 0.037 375
Top States for MAYS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 1,576 415 0.039 390
Tennessee 2,133 438 0.037 375
Virginia 2,633 335 0.037 372
Mississippi 1,050 450 0.037 369
West Virginia 654 441 0.036 362

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of MAYS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MAYS 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 MAYS 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 MAYS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 720 1.85
White (Hispanic) 533 1.37
Native American/Alaskan 183 0.47
Asian/Pacific 109 0.28
White (Caucasian) 22,411 57.59
Black/African American 14,955 38.43

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

Meaning of MAYS in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of MAYS.

Similar names to MAYS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MAYS.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for MAYS

The following words are slight variants of MAYS that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.