Maitland

Maitland is the 9,994th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,080 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 97,000.

By the numbers

People: 3,080
Rank: 9,994th
How common: 1 in 97,000
Per 100,000: 1.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Anglo-Norman

possibly a nickname for an ungracious individual, from Anglo-Norman maltalent (“bad temper”). However, it could also derive from the French village of Mautalant, in Normandy.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Maitland described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 71.2%
Black, not Hispanic 17.8%
Hispanic or Latino 4.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Maitland

Frederic William Maitland (1850–1906)British historian
Clover Maitland (born 1972)field hockey player
Bob Maitland (1924–2010)English racing cyclist
Lorna Maitland (born 1943)American actress
Peregrine Maitland (1777–1854)British soldier and colonial administrator
Thomas Maitland (1760–1824)British Army officer and colonial governor
Ronald Maitland (1887–1937)sailor

People named Maitland with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Maitland

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.