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The MEDLIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 10,511 3145 0.004 39
United States (1880 census) 1,537 3765 0.003 31
Change since 1880 +8974 +620 +0.001 +8
Other Countries
Australia 162 9132 0.001 10
United Kingdom 188 17089 0 4
Top States for MEDLIN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 2,931 390 0.036 364
South Carolina 1,294 508 0.032 323
Texas 781 3070 0.004 37
Tennessee 560 1588 0.010 98
Missouri 557 1345 0.010 100
Top States for MEDLIN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 2,931 390 0.036 364
South Carolina 1,294 508 0.032 323
Missouri 557 1345 0.010 100
Tennessee 560 1588 0.010 98
Mississippi 254 1668 0.009 89

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

Classification and Origin of MEDLIN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: Anglo-Saxon

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 433 4.12
White (Hispanic) 191 1.82
Mixed Race 132 1.26
Native American/Alaskan 68 0.65
Asian/Pacific 26 0.25
White (Caucasian) 9,661 91.91

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

Meaning of MEDLIN in historical publications

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

Similar names to MEDLIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MEDLIN.

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 MEDLIN

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