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    The surname Lamay

    A place surname, carried by 1,835 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex L500

    Lamay: #15,857 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Lamay #15,857, 1,835 people Lamay: #15,857 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Lamay #15,857, 1,835 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lamay is more common than 90.2% of them.

    Origin

    * As a French surname, variant of Lemay (partly due to American pronunciation). * Also as a French surname, from the placename Lamath in Meurthe-et-Moselle. The placename is attested in several forms, as early as Old French la Marz (1178), first element from la, but the second element is uncertain; perhaps a Germanic borrowing (compare Frankish *marisk (“bog, marshy area”)).

    Lamay is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,835 people named Lamay in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 168,254 Americans. That is up 9.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,681.

    #15,857
    rank among US surnames
    1,835
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +9.2%
    change since 2000 (was #15,889)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #15,854Perezlopez1,836168,162
    #15,857Dority1,835168,254
    #15,864Leonardi1,834168,345

    Who is named Lamay

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    85% of people named Lamay identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.7% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 85%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 5.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.7%
    • Two or more races 2.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 2.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Lamay

    Lamay has the Soundex code L500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L500.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Lamay come from?
    * As a French surname, variant of Lemay (partly due to American pronunciation). * Also as a French surname, from the placename Lamath in Meurthe-et-Moselle. The placename is attested in several forms, as early as Old French la Marz (1178), first element from la, but the second element is…
    How common is the surname Lamay?
    1,835 people in the United States had the surname Lamay in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 168,254 Americans. It ranked 15,857th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Lamay?
    In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Lamay identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Lamay?
    Lamay is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Lamay getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,681 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,835 in 2010, up 9.2%.