Maze

At the 2020 census, 4,378 Americans bore the surname Maze — 7,337th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 68,300.

By the numbers

People: 4,378
Rank: 7,337th
How common: 1 in 68,300
Per 100,000: 1.5

Where the name comes from

As an English surname, variant of Mays.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 74.5%
Black, not Hispanic 15.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Maze

Tina Maze (born 1983)Slovenian alpine skier
Michael Maze (born 1981)Danish table tennis player
Jynx Maze (born 1990)Peruvian American pornographic actress
Colette Maze (1914–2023)French pianist

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

Surnames like Maze

Also a first name

Maze has been given to 543 American babies as a first name since 1922, peaking in 2025. 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.