Lemay Surname: Origin, Meaning & Coat of Arms

Lemay shows up clearly in official surname statistics. We do not guess at meanings: where the dictionaries are silent on Lemay, the family's own records come first.

The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Lemay with 8,471 bearers, at rank 4,182. It sits within the 5,000 most common last names in the country. 2,155 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Lemay name at birth. There were 110 such births in the 1890s and 250 in the 1990s.

Heraldry follows families, not surnames. A Lemay coat of arms, where one exists, belonged to a specific line. Research your Lemay family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.