The MELLEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,793	10536	0.001	10
United States (1880 census)	1,256	4493	0.003	25
Change since 1880	+1537	-6043	-0.002	-15
Other Countries
Australia	57	22910	0	3
United Kingdom	117	22354	0	3

Top States for MELLEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	311	2983	0.005	49
California	208	12889	0.001	6
Michigan	181	7323	0.002	18
Florida	168	11572	0.001	11
New York	144	14091	0.001	8
Top States for MELLEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Hampshire	63	3065	0.005	51
Massachusetts	311	2983	0.005	49
Utah	98	3086	0.004	44
Maine	50	3950	0.004	39
Idaho	47	4229	0.004	36

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

Classification and Origin of MELLEN

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 MELLEN 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 MELLEN 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 MELLEN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	34	1.22
Mixed Race	26	0.93
Black/African American	21	0.75
Asian/Pacific	15	0.54
Native American/Alaskan	7	0.25
White (Caucasian)	2,690	96.31

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

Similar names to MELLEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MELLEN.

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.