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The MELVIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 19,523 1679 0.007 72
United States (1880 census) 4,027 1535 0.008 81
Change since 1880 +15496 -144 -0.001 -9
Other Countries
Australia 387 4102 0.002 24
United Kingdom 2,689 2314 0.006 59
Top States for MELVIN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 2,394 516 0.030 297
Florida 1,815 1217 0.011 114
Illinois 1,047 1283 0.008 84
California 1,042 3177 0.003 31
Ohio 892 1636 0.008 79
Top States for MELVIN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 384 308 0.049 490
North Carolina 2,394 516 0.030 297
Maine 183 1440 0.014 144
Maryland 666 964 0.013 126
Alabama 546 1416 0.012 123

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

Classification and Origin of MELVIN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 269 1.38
White (Hispanic) 252 1.29
Native American/Alaskan 107 0.55
Asian/Pacific 78 0.4
White (Caucasian) 13,555 69.43
Black/African American 5,261 26.95

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

Meaning of MELVIN in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of MELVIN.

Similar names to MELVIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MELVIN.

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 MELVIN

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