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    The surname Mais

    A surname, carried by 738 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex M200

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Mais is more common than 80.7% of them.

    Origin

    * As an English surname (Durham), variant of Mayes. * As a German surname, from the obsolete Middle High German meiz (“cleared land”).

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 738 people named Mais in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 418,354 Americans. That is up 10% since 2000, when the Census counted 670.

    #31,383
    rank among US surnames
    738
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +10.1%
    change since 2000 (was #32,380)

    Who is named Mais

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

    61% of people named Mais identified as white (not Hispanic), 29% as Black (not Hispanic) and 6.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 61%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 29%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.6%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Mais

    Mais has the Soundex code M200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M200.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Mais come from?
    * As an English surname (Durham), variant of Mayes. * As a German surname, from the obsolete Middle High German meiz (“cleared land”).
    How common is the surname Mais?
    738 people in the United States had the surname Mais in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 418,354 Americans. It ranked 31,383rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Mais?
    In the 2010 Census, 61% of people named Mais identified as white (not Hispanic), and 29% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Mais getting more or less common?
    More common. 670 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 738 in 2010, up 10%.