How common is the surname Male?

1,773 people in the United States had the surname Male in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 174,137 Americans. It ranked 16,265th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Male?

In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Male identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Male getting more or less common?

More common. 1,703 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,773 in 2010, up 4.1%.

The surname Male

A Welsh place surname, carried by 1,773 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex M400

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Male is more common than 90% of them.

Origin

Welsh origin

* As a Welsh surname, from the personal name Mael, from Middle Welsh mael (“prince”). * As an English surname of Norman origin, contaminated from many Old French sources, such as mail (“hammer”), maille (“chainmail”), maille (“denier”), or esmal (“enamel”). Compare Mailer. * Also as an English surname, from Middle English male (“bag, pouch”). * Also as an English surname of Norman origin, from the source of male (“male, male adult”). * Also as an English surname, from Middle English mele (“meal, flour”) (compare Millman) or from Old Norse melr (“sandhill”). Compare Meil. * As a Slovene surname, from the adjective mal (“small, little”), from Proto-Slavic *malъ. Compare Mal, Mahle. * As a Norwegian surname, from a farm in Romsdal derived from Old Norse mǫl (“layer of pebbles”). Also Americanized from Mæle, Mæhle, itself related to the Norse word melr. Compare Mele.

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

One of 60 Welsh surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,773 people named Male in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 174,137 Americans. That is up 4.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,703.

#16,265

rank among US surnames

1,773

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+4.1%

change since 2000 (was #15,738)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,261	Kinkead	1,774	174,039
#16,265	Rake	1,773	174,137
#16,273	Layden	1,772	174,236

Who is named Male

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

79% of people named Male identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 6.5% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 79%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7.2%
Black (not Hispanic) 6.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 4.0%
Two or more races 2.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Male

Male has the Soundex code M400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M400.

Other Welsh surnames

All 60 Welsh surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Male come from?: * As a Welsh surname, from the personal name Mael, from Middle Welsh mael (“prince”). * As an English surname of Norman origin, contaminated from many Old French sources, such as mail (“hammer”), maille (“chainmail”), maille (“denier”), or esmal (“enamel”). Compare Mailer. * Also as an English…
How common is the surname Male?: 1,773 people in the United States had the surname Male in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 174,137 Americans. It ranked 16,265th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Male?: In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Male identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Male?: Male is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Male getting more or less common?: More common. 1,703 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,773 in 2010, up 4.1%.