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    The surname Maze

    An Irish patronymic surname, carried by 4,742 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex M200

    Maze: #7,059 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Maze #7,059, 4,742 people Maze: #7,059 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Maze #7,059, 4,742 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Maze is more common than 95.6% of them.

    Origin

    Irish origin

    * As an English surname, variant of Mays. * As an English and Irish surname, variant of Maye, from Irish Ó Miadhaigh (“descendant of Miadhach”), see miadh (“esteem, respect”). Compare May. * As a Breton surname Mazé, shortened from Mazéo, Breton form of Matthew. * As a French surname Mazé, from a place in Maine-et-Loire, from Latin Masiacum (“estate of Masius”). * Also as a French surname, shortened pet form of Thomas. * Also as a French surname, variant of Mas, from the noun mas (“farmhouse”). * As a Slovene surname, shortened from Tomaž, a form of Thomas. Or, from the verb mazati (“to grease”). * As an Ashkenazic Jewish surname, from Hebrew מאז״ה (Mazeh), an acronym of מִזֶּרַע אַהֲרֹן הַכֹּהֵן (mi-zéra' Aharón ha-Kohén, “from the seed of Aaron the priest”), compare Cohen.

    Maze is a patronymic surname: formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.

    One of 880 Irish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,742 people named Maze in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 65,109 Americans. That is up 2.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,617.

    #7,059
    rank among US surnames
    4,742
    people in 2010
    1.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.7%
    change since 2000 (was #6,733)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,053Ernest4,74565,068
    #7,054Barley4,74465,081
    #7,057Propst4,74365,095
    #7,059Maze4,74265,109
    #7,060Edgerton4,74065,136

    Who is named Maze

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

    76% of people named Maze identified as white (not Hispanic), 16% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 76%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 16%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
    • Two or more races 2.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Maze

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

    Other Irish surnames

    All 880 Irish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Maze come from?
    * As an English surname, variant of Mays. * As an English and Irish surname, variant of Maye, from Irish Ó Miadhaigh (“descendant of Miadhach”), see miadh (“esteem, respect”). Compare May. * As a Breton surname Mazé, shortened from Mazéo, Breton form of Matthew. * As a French surname Mazé, from a…
    How common is the surname Maze?
    4,742 people in the United States had the surname Maze in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 65,109 Americans. It ranked 7,059th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Maze?
    In the 2010 Census, 76% of people named Maze identified as white (not Hispanic), and 16% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Maze?
    Maze is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
    Is the surname Maze getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,617 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,742 in 2010, up 2.7%.