The MELIUS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,132	21510	0	4
United States (1880 census)	275	15250	0.001	5
Change since 1880	+857	-6260	+N/A	-1
Other Countries
Australia	3	203209	0	0
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for MELIUS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	146	10416	0.001	12
Wisconsin	113	7653	0.002	21
New York	89	20962	0.000	5
Minnesota	85	9255	0.002	17
South Dakota	85	1149	0.011	113
Top States for MELIUS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Dakota	85	1149	0.011	113
Wyoming	14	5160	0.003	28
Wisconsin	113	7653	0.002	21
Montana	18	8464	0.002	20
Minnesota	85	9255	0.002	17

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

Classification and Origin of MELIUS

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

Ethnic distribution of MELIUS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	24	2.12
Mixed Race	16	1.41
Black/African American	12	1.06
Asian/Pacific	8	0.71
Native American/Alaskan	6	0.53
White (Caucasian)	1,066	94.17

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

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

Similar names to MELIUS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MELIUS.

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.