Mayes

23,637 people in the United States were counted with the surname Mayes in the 2020 census, making it the 1,470th most common in the country. That is about one person in 12,600.

By the numbers

People: 23,637
Rank: 1,470th
How common: 1 in 12,600
Per 100,000: 7.9

Where the name comes from

English surname, variant of May with genitival -s.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 57.7%
Black, not Hispanic 32.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Mayes

Tanner Mayes (born 1989)American pornographic actress
Rob Mayes (born 1984)American actor, musician, and model
Xavier Rathan-Mayes (born 1994)Canadian basketball player

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

Surnames like Mayes

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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.