The MELDRUM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,172	12953	0.001	8
United States (1880 census)	268	15556	0.001	5
Change since 1880	+1904	+2603	0	+3
Other Countries
Australia	783	2066	0.005	48
United Kingdom	2,413	2525	0.005	53

Top States for MELDRUM by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Michigan	640	1761	0.006	64
Utah	173	1755	0.008	77
California	132	18169	0.000	4
Florida	114	15448	0.001	7
New York	107	17735	0.001	6
Top States for MELDRUM by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	173	1755	0.008	77
Michigan	640	1761	0.006	64
Idaho	38	4998	0.003	29
Montana	21	6978	0.002	23
Maine	27	6009	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 MELDRUM live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called MELDRUM represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called MELDRUM in Michigan than any other state, but you are more likely to find a MELDRUM by picking someone at random in Utah than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of MELDRUM

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	32	1.47
Black/African American	24	1.1
Mixed Race	15	0.69
Asian/Pacific	8	0.37
Native American/Alaskan	5	0.23
White (Caucasian)	2,088	96.13

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

Similar names to MELDRUM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MELDRUM.

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.