The MELROSE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,304	19242	0	5
United States (1880 census)	331	13261	0.001	7
Change since 1880	+973	-5981	+N/A	-2
Other Countries
Australia	438	3621	0.003	27
United Kingdom	1,349	4099	0.003	29

Top States for MELROSE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	201	11970	0.001	6
Florida	112	14775	0.001	7
New York	91	19336	0.000	5
Michigan	82	14485	0.001	8
Oklahoma	67	5908	0.002	19
Top States for MELROSE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	38	4371	0.002	21
Oklahoma	67	5908	0.002	19
Minnesota	66	11237	0.001	13
Maine	16	8346	0.001	13
Washington	63	10884	0.001	11

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

Classification and Origin of MELROSE

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 MELROSE 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 MELROSE 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 MELROSE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	66	5.06
White (Hispanic)	25	1.92
Mixed Race	23	1.76
Asian/Pacific	15	1.15
Native American/Alaskan	9	0.69
White (Caucasian)	1,166	89.42

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

Similar names to MELROSE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MELROSE.

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.