The MAYO surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	33,126	965	0.012	123
United States (1880 census)	6,609	917	0.013	132
Change since 1880	+26517	-48	-0.001	-9
Other Countries
Australia	703	2297	0.004	43
United Kingdom	3,236	1936	0.007	70

Top States for MAYO by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	2,965	909	0.014	142
California	2,544	1341	0.008	75
Florida	2,439	848	0.015	153
Virginia	1,910	449	0.027	270
North Carolina	1,678	732	0.021	208
Top States for MAYO by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	639	357	0.050	501
Vermont	272	300	0.045	447
New Hampshire	369	505	0.030	299
Alaska	182	386	0.029	290
Mississippi	816	555	0.029	287

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

Classification and Origin of MAYO

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	633	1.91
Asian/Pacific	576	1.74
Native American/Alaskan	301	0.91
White (Caucasian)	22,211	67.05
Black/African American	7,457	22.51
White (Hispanic)	1,944	5.87

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

Similar names to MAYO

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MAYO.

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.