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The MIR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,422 18077 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 22 71454 0 0
Change since 1880 +1400 +53377 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 76 18008 0 5
United Kingdom 1,152 4685 0.003 25
Top States for MIR by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 268 6545 0.002 17
New York 184 9287 0.001 10
California 180 12489 0.001 5
Texas 116 12687 0.001 6
New Jersey 109 8104 0.001 13
Top States for MIR by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 268 6545 0.002 17
New Jersey 109 8104 0.001 13
Maryland 65 7816 0.001 12
New York 184 9287 0.001 10
Nevada 18 11614 0.001 9

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

Classification and Origin of MIR

Region of origin: Middle East

Religious origin: Muslim

Ethnic distribution of MIR in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 562 39.52
White (Hispanic) 383 26.93
White (Caucasian) 334 23.49
Mixed Race 135 9.49
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of MIR in historical publications

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

Similar names to MIR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MIR.

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 MIR

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