Last name: MAYS
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Last name frequency
MAYS : This last name is indexed 64,320 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
MAYS : 1: English: variant of Mayes.2: German: variant of Mais.3: Dutch: from a short form of the personal name Thomas. In North America this surname may also be an altered form of the variant Maijs.
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