The MEHL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,919	10148	0.001	11
United States (1880 census)	742	7020	0.001	15
Change since 1880	+2177	-3128	0	-4
Other Countries
Australia	53	24333	0	3
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for MEHL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	273	9376	0.001	8
Ohio	219	6119	0.002	19
New York	208	8974	0.001	11
Florida	195	9321	0.001	12
Michigan	163	7369	0.002	16
Top States for MEHL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	34	3201	0.005	53
Kansas	97	3352	0.004	36
Oregon	94	4515	0.003	27
Montana	24	5882	0.003	27
Missouri	115	6120	0.002	21

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

Classification and Origin of MEHL

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MEHL 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.

Ethnic distribution of MEHL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	32	1.1
White (Hispanic)	32	1.1
Native American/Alaskan	25	0.86
Asian/Pacific	24	0.82
Black/African American	23	0.79
White (Caucasian)	2,783	95.34

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

Similar names to MEHL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MEHL.

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.