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    The surname Maina

    A surname, carried by 1,100 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex M500

    Maina: #23,185 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Maina #23,185, 1,100 people Maina: #23,185 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Maina #23,185, 1,100 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Maina is more common than 85.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,100 people named Maina in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 280,678 Americans. That is up 145% since 2000, when the Census counted 449.

    #23,185
    rank among US surnames
    1,100
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +145%
    change since 2000 (was #44,997)

    Who is named Maina

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

    78% of people named Maina identified as Black (not Hispanic), 16% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 78%
    • White (not Hispanic) 16%
    • Two or more races 2.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Maina

    Maina has the Soundex code M500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M500.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Maina?
    1,100 people in the United States had the surname Maina in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 280,678 Americans. It ranked 23,185th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Maina?
    In the 2010 Census, 78% of people named Maina identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 16% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Maina getting more or less common?
    More common. 449 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,100 in 2010, up 145%.