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The MERIDETH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,889 14482 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 1,367 4170 0.003 27
Change since 1880 +522 -10312 -0.002 -20
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 5 32786 0 0
Top States for MERIDETH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 284 2208 0.007 70
California 188 14944 0.001 6
Missouri 180 4650 0.003 32
Illinois 106 14318 0.001 9
Florida 89 21242 0.001 6
Top States for MERIDETH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 284 2208 0.007 70
Missouri 180 4650 0.003 32
Alaska 16 7260 0.003 26
Oklahoma 74 6369 0.002 21
Mississippi 58 5161 0.002 20

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of MERIDETH

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the MERIDETH surname.

Ethnic distribution of MERIDETH in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 192 10.16
White (Hispanic) 35 1.85
Mixed Race 23 1.22
Asian/Pacific 11 0.58
Native American/Alaskan 10 0.53
White (Caucasian) 1,618 85.65

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

MERIDETH is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of MERIDETH in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of MERIDETH.

Similar names to MERIDETH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MERIDETH.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for MERIDETH

The following words are slight variants of MERIDETH that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.