Mayo

33,564 people in the United States were counted with the surname Mayo in the 2020 census, making it the 1,023rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 8,905.

By the numbers

People: 33,564
Rank: 1,023rd
How common: 1 in 8,905
Per 100,000: 11.2

Where the name comes from

From the Middle English personal name Mayheu, equivalent to Matthew.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 60.7%
Black, not Hispanic 21.4%
Hispanic or Latino 10.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Mayo

Elton Mayo (1880–1949)Australian psychologist and sociologist
Virginia Mayo (1920–2005)American actress
O. J. Mayo (born 1987)American basketball player
Archie Mayo (1891–1968)movie director and stage actor
Iban Mayo (born 1977)road bicycle racer
William James Mayo (1861–1939)American surgeon
Frank Mayo (1886–1963)American actor
Helen Mayo (1878–1967)Australian doctor

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

Surnames like Mayo

Also a first name

Mayo has been given to 1,492 American babies as a first name since 1893, peaking in 1915. 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.