How common is the surname Maw?

1,250 people in the United States had the surname Maw in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 246,996 Americans. It ranked 21,034th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Maw?

In the 2010 Census, 78% of people named Maw identified as white (not Hispanic), and 17% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

Is the surname Maw getting more or less common?

More common. 960 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,250 in 2010, up 30%.

The surname Maw

A surname, carried by 1,250 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex M000

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Maw is more common than 87% of them.

Origin

* As an English surname, from an obsolete derivative of Proto-Germanic *makô (“mate, relative”), comparable to modern match. * Also as an English surname, from archaic mew (“seagull”); compare the surname Mew. * Also as an English surname, from archaic maw (“belly”).

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,250 people named Maw in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 246,996 Americans. That is up 30% since 2000, when the Census counted 960.

#21,034

rank among US surnames

1,250

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+30.2%

change since 2000 (was #24,432)

Who is named Maw

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

78% of people named Maw identified as white (not Hispanic), 17% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 78%
Asian and Pacific Islander 17%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Two or more races 1.4%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Maw

Maw has the Soundex code M000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M000.

Questions

Where does the surname Maw come from?: * As an English surname, from an obsolete derivative of Proto-Germanic *makô (“mate, relative”), comparable to modern match. * Also as an English surname, from archaic mew (“seagull”); compare the surname Mew. * Also as an English surname, from archaic maw (“belly”).
How common is the surname Maw?: 1,250 people in the United States had the surname Maw in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 246,996 Americans. It ranked 21,034th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Maw?: In the 2010 Census, 78% of people named Maw identified as white (not Hispanic), and 17% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
Is the surname Maw getting more or less common?: More common. 960 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,250 in 2010, up 30%.