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The MAW surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 960 24432 0 4
United States (1880 census) 212 18482 0 4
Change since 1880 +748 -5950 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 137 10747 0.001 8
United Kingdom 1,476 3808 0.003 32
Top States for MAW by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 235 1110 0.011 105
California 105 19570 0.000 3
South Carolina 78 5041 0.002 19
New York 49 31601 0.000 3
Washington 44 13867 0.001 7
Top States for MAW by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 235 1110 0.011 105
South Carolina 78 5041 0.002 19
Idaho 23 6861 0.002 18
Montana 16 7881 0.002 18
North Dakota 11 8656 0.002 17

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

Classification and Origin of MAW

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 MAW 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 MAW 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 MAW in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 823 85.73
Asian/Pacific 103 10.73
White (Hispanic) 19 1.98
Mixed Race 9 0.94
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of MAW in historical publications

MAW. MAWE. "The name Mac Coghlan is in Ireland beautified and abbreviated into Maw ; the Mac Coghlan or head of the family was called the Maw ; and a district of King's County was known, within the memory of persons now living, by the appellation of the Maw's County." Southey's Doctor.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to MAW

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MAW.

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 MAW

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