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The MEINKE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,468 17627 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 155 23149 0 3
Change since 1880 +1313 +5522 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 8 100530 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for MEINKE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 214 5670 0.002 22
Ohio 146 9132 0.001 13
California 131 18168 0.000 4
Minnesota 112 6610 0.002 23
Wisconsin 112 7542 0.002 21
Top States for MEINKE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nebraska 93 2465 0.005 54
Minnesota 112 6610 0.002 23
Michigan 214 5670 0.002 22
South Dakota 16 8267 0.002 21
Wisconsin 112 7542 0.002 21

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

Classification and Origin of MEINKE

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the MEINKE surname.

Ethnic distribution of MEINKE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 18 1.23
Mixed Race 17 1.16
Asian/Pacific 10 0.68
White (Caucasian) 1,421 96.8
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

MEINKE is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of MEINKE in historical publications

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

Similar names to MEINKE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MEINKE.

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 MEINKE

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