The MEAD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	21,919	1494	0.008	81
United States (1880 census)	13,316	440	0.027	266
Change since 1880	+8603	-1054	-0.019	-185
Other Countries
Australia	2,137	755	0.013	131
United Kingdom	8,390	730	0.018	183

Top States for MEAD by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Michigan	2,025	453	0.020	204
California	1,911	1659	0.006	56
New York	1,831	924	0.010	96
Florida	1,290	1535	0.008	81
Texas	1,026	2251	0.005	49
Top States for MEAD by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	204	420	0.034	335
Michigan	2,025	453	0.020	204
Wyoming	91	561	0.018	184
Oregon	558	663	0.016	163
Kansas	419	620	0.016	156

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

Classification and Origin of MEAD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MEAD 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 MEAD 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 MEAD in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	509	2.32
White (Hispanic)	419	1.91
Mixed Race	322	1.47
Native American/Alaskan	162	0.74
Asian/Pacific	138	0.63
White (Caucasian)	20,372	92.94

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

Similar names to MEAD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MEAD.

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.