Last Name MAJORS

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Meaning	Not available

Origin	Latvian

Rank	3,448 (2000 US census)	2,959 (1990 US census)

Count	9,480 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

68.74%, or 6517 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
26.78%, or 2539 total occurrences, as black,
0.38%, or 36 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.57%, or 54 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.99%, or 189 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.53%, or 145 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

Longest baby names

The longest first name, consisting of 12 characters, from the baby names reported since the year 1880 in the United States is Francisquita.

There are three names consisting of 11 characters: Christopher, Margueritta, and Margueritte

Ukrainian middle names

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.