How common is the surname Maida?

2,084 people in the United States had the surname Maida in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 148,150 Americans. It ranked 14,356th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Maida?

In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Maida identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Maida getting more or less common?

More common. 1,853 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,084 in 2010, up 13%.

The surname Maida

A surname, carried by 2,084 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex M300

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Maida is more common than 91.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,084 people named Maida in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 148,150 Americans. That is up 13% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,853.

#14,356

rank among US surnames

2,084

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

+12.5%

change since 2000 (was #14,706)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#14,349	Moir	2,085	148,079
#14,356	Maida	2,084	148,150
#14,358	Spatz	2,083	148,222
#14,363	Heinrichs	2,082	148,293

Who is named Maida

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

89% of people named Maida identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 89%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.2%
Two or more races 1.1%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Maida

Maida has the Soundex code M300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M300.

Questions

How common is the surname Maida?: 2,084 people in the United States had the surname Maida in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 148,150 Americans. It ranked 14,356th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Maida?: In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Maida identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Maida getting more or less common?: More common. 1,853 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,084 in 2010, up 13%.