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The MELANSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,539 6829 0.002 17
United States (1880 census) 44 53063 0 1
Change since 1880 +4495 +46234 +N/A +16
Other Countries
Australia 2 225917 0 0
United Kingdom 16 29314 0 0
Top States for MELANSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 1,617 488 0.025 255
Florida 404 4866 0.003 25
New Hampshire 361 480 0.029 292
Maine 352 707 0.028 276
California 321 8204 0.001 9
Top States for MELANSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 361 480 0.029 292
Maine 352 707 0.028 276
Massachusetts 1,617 488 0.025 255
Connecticut 177 2473 0.005 52
Vermont 25 3821 0.004 41

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

Classification and Origin of MELANSON

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 MELANSON 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 MELANSON 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 MELANSON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 86 1.89
White (Hispanic) 69 1.52
Mixed Race 50 1.1
Asian/Pacific 20 0.44
Native American/Alaskan 13 0.29
White (Caucasian) 4,301 94.76

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

Meaning of MELANSON in historical publications

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

Similar names to MELANSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MELANSON.

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 MELANSON

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