Mays

At the 2020 census, 39,073 Americans bore the surname Mays — 875th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 7,650.

By the numbers

People: 39,073
Rank: 875th
How common: 1 in 7,650
Per 100,000: 13.1

Where the name comes from

As an English surname, variant of Mayes.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 52.3%
Black, not Hispanic 38.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Mays

Jayma Mays (born 1979)American actress
Willie Mays (1931–2024)American baseball player
Billy Mays (1958–2009)European-American salesperson
Tristin Mays (born 1990)American actress
Lyle Mays (1953–2020)American jazz musician
Daniel Mays (born 1978)British actor

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

Surnames like Mays

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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.