How common is the surname Maxey?

10,584 people in the United States had the surname Maxey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 29,171 Americans. It ranked 3,372nd of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Maxey?

Tyrese Maxey, American basketball player (born 2000), followed by Samuel B. Maxey.

Where is the surname Maxey most common?

Wikidata records people named Maxey in the United States.

Is the surname Maxey getting more or less common?

More common. 10,461 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 10,584 in 2010, up 1.2%.

The surname Maxey

An English place surname, carried by 10,584 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex M200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Maxey is more common than 97.9% of them.

Origin

English origin

From the genitive case of the personal name Mack + Old English eġ (“island; low-lying land”). Ekwall (1960) refers the first element to Old Irish Maccus, a Norse-Gaelic form of the Old Norse name Magnus.

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

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 10,584 people named Maxey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 29,171 Americans. That is up 1.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 10,461.

#3,372

rank among US surnames

10,584

people in 2010

3.6

per 100,000 Americans

+1.2%

change since 2000 (was #3,154)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,363	Newkirk	10,620	29,072
#3,364	Malcolm	10,618	29,078
#3,365	Montenegro	10,606	29,110
#3,366	Gulley	10,605	29,113
#3,367	Maples	10,603	29,119
#3,368	Galarza	10,601	29,124
#3,369	Wenger	10,596	29,138

Who is named Maxey

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

73% of people named Maxey identified as white (not Hispanic), 20% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 73%
Black (not Hispanic) 20%
Two or more races 2.5%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Maxeys

2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Tyrese Maxey
American basketball player (born 2000)
Samuel B. Maxey
American politician (1825-1895)

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Maxcy

Surnames that sound like Maxey

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

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Maxey come from?: From the genitive case of the personal name Mack + Old English eġ (“island; low-lying land”). Ekwall (1960) refers the first element to Old Irish Maccus, a Norse-Gaelic form of the Old Norse name Magnus.
How common is the surname Maxey?: 10,584 people in the United States had the surname Maxey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 29,171 Americans. It ranked 3,372nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Maxey?: In the 2010 Census, 73% of people named Maxey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 20% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Maxey?: Tyrese Maxey, American basketball player (born 2000), followed by Samuel B. Maxey.
Where is the surname Maxey most common?: Wikidata records people named Maxey in the United States.
What type of surname is Maxey?: Maxey is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Maxey getting more or less common?: More common. 10,461 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 10,584 in 2010, up 1.2%.
What are other spellings of Maxey?: Maxcy.