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    The surname Many

    A French surname, carried by 590 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex M500

    Many: #37,691 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Many #37,691, 590 people Many: #37,691 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Many #37,691, 590 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Many is more common than 76.8% of them.

    Origin

    French origin

    Borrowed from French Many or a variant of Maney. The town in Louisiana is named after a Colonel Many.

    One of 791 French surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 590 people named Many in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 523,298 Americans. That is down 3.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 612.

    #37,691
    rank among US surnames
    590
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -3.6%
    change since 2000 (was #34,904)

    Who is named Many

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

    77% of people named Many identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 5.4% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 77%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 11%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 5.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.9%
    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

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Many

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

    Other French surnames

    All 791 French surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Many come from?
    Borrowed from French Many or a variant of Maney. The town in Louisiana is named after a Colonel Many.
    How common is the surname Many?
    590 people in the United States had the surname Many in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 523,298 Americans. It ranked 37,691st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Many?
    In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Many identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    Is the surname Many getting more or less common?
    Less common. 612 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 590 in 2010, down 3.6%.