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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

'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.

Meaning of MELROSE in historical publications

MELROSE. A parish in Roxburghshire, containing the town of the same name, formerly renowned for its great monastery.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for MELROSE

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