Maxey

At the 2020 census, 9,916 Americans bore the surname Maxey — 3,506th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 30,100.

By the numbers

People: 9,916
Rank: 3,506th
How common: 1 in 30,100
Per 100,000: 3.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From the genitive case of the personal name Mack + Old English eġ (“island; low-lying land”). Ekwall (1960) refers the first element to Old Irish Maccus, a Norse-Gaelic form of the Old Norse name Magnus.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 69.7%
Black, not Hispanic 19.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Maxey

Tyrese Maxey (born 2000)American basketball player
Samuel B. Maxey (1825–1895)American politician

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

Surnames like Maxey

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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.