Mayhew

At the 2020 census, 8,761 Americans bore the surname Mayhew — 3,932nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 34,100.

By the numbers

People: 8,761
Rank: 3,932nd
How common: 1 in 34,100
Per 100,000: 2.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Norman

Anglicized form of Norman Mahieu, a common form of the personal name Matthew.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 83.9%
Black, not Hispanic 7.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Mayhew

Peter Mayhew (1944–2019)British-American actor
Lauren C. Mayhew (born 1985)American singer and actress
John Mayhew (1947–2009)British musician
Henry Mayhew (1812–1887)British writer and activist

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

Surnames like Mayhew

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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.