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The MENDEL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,574 11273 0.001 10
United States (1880 census) 622 8093 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +1952 -3180 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 65 20610 0 4
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for MENDEL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 292 8886 0.001 9
New York 284 6667 0.001 15
Florida 197 9246 0.001 12
Texas 139 11779 0.001 7
Ohio 132 9788 0.001 12
Top States for MENDEL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 81 1150 0.011 107
Minnesota 124 5701 0.003 25
Louisiana 89 5629 0.002 20
Indiana 110 6569 0.002 18
New York 284 6667 0.001 15

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

Classification and Origin of MENDEL

Language of origin: Hebrew

Religious origin: Jewish

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MENDEL 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.

Ethnic distribution of MENDEL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 211 8.2
Mixed Race 17 0.66
Asian/Pacific 12 0.47
White (Caucasian) 2,326 90.37
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of MENDEL in historical publications

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

Similar names to MENDEL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MENDEL.

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 MENDEL

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