Meaning of the surname May
May is a Maya surname of the indigenous type meaning "young deer". It is a regional surname. About 46,000 to 47,000 people in Yucatán.
Maya surnames from Yucatán and Campeche (Pech, Canul, Chan, Ek, May, Uc, Poot, Tun) and Nahuatl surnames from central Mexico. Yucatán is the one region of Mexico where indigenous surnames dominate the top of the list.
In Mexico a person carries two surnames, the father's and then the mother's, so May appears as either half of a pair: May García, López May. Read how the two-surname system works.