Family name origins & meanings
- French : habitational name, with the preposition de, for someone from either of two minor places called May, in Drôme and Rhône.
- northern French : topographic name from mê ‘trough’, presumably denoting someone who lived in a trough-shaped hollow.
- Northern French : topographic name from Old French mes, meis ‘house’, ‘dwelling’ (Latin mansus). Compare Dumas.