The MAINE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,443	8776	0.001	13
United States (1880 census)	1,407	4048	0.003	28
Change since 1880	+2036	-4728	-0.002	-15
Other Countries
Australia	150	9838	0.001	9
United Kingdom	369	11057	0.001	8

Top States for MAINE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	452	4658	0.002	24
California	258	10916	0.001	8
Florida	234	8771	0.001	15
Washington	204	4009	0.003	35
Georgia	128	6161	0.002	16
Top States for MAINE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	99	1791	0.009	94
Washington	204	4009	0.003	35
Oregon	111	4307	0.003	32
South Dakota	23	6509	0.003	30
Connecticut	103	4913	0.003	30

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

Classification and Origin of MAINE

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 MAINE 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 MAINE 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 MAINE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	219	6.36
White (Hispanic)	70	2.03
Mixed Race	54	1.57
Native American/Alaskan	30	0.87
Asian/Pacific	17	0.49
White (Caucasian)	3,053	88.67

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

Similar names to MAINE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MAINE.

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.