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The MEARA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 505 40761 0 2
United States (1880 census) 187 20276 0 4
Change since 1880 +318 -20485 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 73 18679 0 4
United Kingdom 153 19263 0 3
Top States for MEARA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 65 11364 0.001 10
New Jersey 59 16051 0.001 7
New York 51 33480 0.000 3
Florida 46 32528 0.000 3
Missouri 43 14438 0.001 8
Top States for MEARA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 65 11364 0.001 10
Kansas 24 12271 0.001 9
Missouri 43 14438 0.001 8
New Jersey 59 16051 0.001 7
Maine 8 15757 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of MEARA

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 496 98.22
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 0
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of MEARA in historical publications

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

Similar names to MEARA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MEARA.

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 MEARA

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