Maya

9,761 people in the United States were counted with the surname Maya in the 2020 census, making it the 3,563rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 30,600.

By the numbers

People: 9,761
Rank: 3,563rd
How common: 1 in 30,600
Per 100,000: 3.3

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 88.4%
White, not Hispanic 8.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.9%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Maya

Edward Maya (born 1986)Romanian singer, DJ, composer and record producer
María Fernanda Castro Maya (born 1992)Mexican disability activist
Mandisa Maya (born 1964)South African judge
Maria Maya (born 1981)actress

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

Surnames like Maya

Also a first name

Maya has been given to 123,750 American babies as a first name since 1940, peaking in 2006. 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.