Maki Family History
Maki Name Meaning
Finnish (Mäki): from Finnish mäki ‘hill’,
originally a habitational name from a farm so named. From the late
19th century, when under the requirements of the Church people without
surnames began to acquire them, this was one of the many words from
nature that were adopted as surnames. During the name conversion
movement in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Mäki was much used
as a substitute for Swedish surnames formed with berg or
back ‘hill’. In the U.S. Maki may be a short form of
Mäkinen (see Makinen) or other names based on this
element. It has sometimes been translated as Hill.Japanese: ‘pasture’; found in the island of Kyushu, but not
common in Japan proper, it appears to originate in the Ryukyuan
island of Amami.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Maki Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Maki families
 272 - 542  91 - 271 |
 1 - 90  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Maki families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Maki last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Maki Family Origin
Maki Immigration Information
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