The MEARS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	9,706	3368	0.004	36
United States (1880 census)	2,896	2105	0.006	58
Change since 1880	+6810	-1263	-0.002	-22
Other Countries
Australia	762	2130	0.005	47
United Kingdom	3,993	1566	0.009	87

Top States for MEARS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Florida	898	2281	0.006	56
Texas	687	3338	0.003	33
California	581	4954	0.002	17
Virginia	468	1986	0.007	66
Pennsylvania	455	3371	0.004	37
Top States for MEARS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	210	615	0.027	268
Vermont	127	807	0.021	209
Alaska	57	1414	0.009	91
Arkansas	215	1687	0.008	80
North Dakota	48	2171	0.007	75

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called MEARS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called MEARS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called MEARS in Florida than any other state, but you are more likely to find a MEARS by picking someone at random in Delaware than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of MEARS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MEARS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the MEARS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of MEARS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	613	6.32
Mixed Race	143	1.47
White (Hispanic)	141	1.45
Asian/Pacific	52	0.54
Native American/Alaskan	46	0.47
White (Caucasian)	8,711	89.75

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the MEARS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to MEARS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MEARS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.