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The MEES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 970 24224 0 4
United States (1880 census) 208 18763 0 4
Change since 1880 +762 -5461 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 87 16091 0.001 5
United Kingdom 373 10964 0.001 8
Top States for MEES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 105 11642 0.001 9
California 102 21380 0.000 3
Texas 83 17056 0.000 4
Missouri 67 9608 0.001 12
Illinois 47 26336 0.000 4
Top States for MEES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 47 2049 0.007 73
South Dakota 23 5607 0.003 30
Wyoming 8 9080 0.002 16
Nebraska 23 11154 0.001 13
Missouri 67 9608 0.001 12

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

Classification and Origin of MEES

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 938 96.7
White (Hispanic) 19 1.96
Asian/Pacific 7 0.72
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of MEES in historical publications

MEES. A provincialism for meadows.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to MEES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MEES.

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 MEES

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