How rare is the last name Lemay?

8,073 people in the United States have the last name Lemay, about 1 in 37,024. It ranks #4,248 of 156,621 last names in the 2020 Census.

last name

LEMAY

#4,248

of 156,621 last names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,073
About
1 in 37,024
This common or more
56.6%
Who bears it

Of the 8,073 people with the last name Lemay, 88.3% reported their origin as White, 4.3% as two or more races and 3.3% as Black. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Either side of Lemay

#4,246 Cade · 8,077#4,247 Burley · 8,075#4,249 Dykstra · 8,071#4,250 Steinmetz · 8,070

Spelled almost the same

One last name in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Lemay, most common first.

#7,756 Lema · 4,108

Also a first name

As a first name, Lemay ranks #47,684 of 53,615, with 136 people. See Lemay as a first name

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