Male

Male is the 2,611th most common surname in the United States, shared by 13,499 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 22,100.

By the numbers

People: 13,499
Rank: 2,611th
How common: 1 in 22,100
Per 100,000: 4.5

Where the name comes from

As a Welsh surname, from the personal name Mael, from Middle Welsh mael (“prince”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 50.5%
Hispanic or Latino 24.1%
Black, not Hispanic 17.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 5.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Male

Émile Mâle (1862–1954)French art historian
George Male (1910–1998)English footballer

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

Surnames like Male

Also a first name

Male has been given to 1,530 American babies as a first name since 1963, peaking in 1991. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.