The MELIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,130	13158	0.001	8
United States (1880 census)	219	18061	0	4
Change since 1880	+1911	+4903	+N/A	+4
Other Countries
Australia	31	37148	0	2
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for MELIN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Minnesota	380	1652	0.008	77
California	306	9244	0.001	9
Illinois	136	10403	0.001	11
Wisconsin	129	6987	0.002	24
Washington	119	6598	0.002	20
Top States for MELIN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Minnesota	380	1652	0.008	77
North Dakota	43	2672	0.007	67
Alaska	21	4802	0.003	33
Wisconsin	129	6987	0.002	24
Montana	21	7407	0.002	23

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

Classification and Origin of MELIN

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

Ethnic distribution of MELIN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	96	4.51
Black/African American	36	1.69
Mixed Race	30	1.41
White (Caucasian)	1,948	91.46
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

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

Similar names to MELIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MELIN.

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.