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The LE-MAY 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 LE-MAY 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 LE-MAY 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

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

Classification and Origin of LE-MAY

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 LE-MAY 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 LE-MAY 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 LE-MAY 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 LE-MAY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of LE-MAY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of LE-MAY.

Similar names to LE-MAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LE-MAY.

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 LE-MAY

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