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    The surname Maness

    A Dutch surname, carried by 8,095 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex M520

    Maness: #4,393 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Maness #4,393, 8,095 people Maness: #4,393 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Maness #4,393, 8,095 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Maness is more common than 97.3% of them.

    Origin

    Dutch origin

    Probably a variant of Dutch Manes.

    One of 167 Dutch surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 8,095 people named Maness in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 38,140 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 8,065.

    #4,393
    rank among US surnames
    8,095
    people in 2010
    2.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.4%
    change since 2000 (was #4,050)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #4,390Holcombe8,10338,103
    #4,391Hefner8,10038,117
    #4,392Enos8,09738,131
    #4,393Maness8,09538,140

    Who is named Maness

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

    92% of people named Maness identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.7% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Maness

    Maness has the Soundex code M520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M520.

    Other Dutch surnames

    All 167 Dutch surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Maness come from?
    Probably a variant of Dutch Manes.
    How common is the surname Maness?
    8,095 people in the United States had the surname Maness in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 38,140 Americans. It ranked 4,393rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Maness?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Maness identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Maness getting more or less common?
    More common. 8,065 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,095 in 2010, up 0.4%.