The MENZIES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,046	13609	0.001	8
United States (1880 census)	246	16587	0	5
Change since 1880	+1800	+2978	+N/A	+3
Other Countries
Australia	1,666	979	0.01	102
United Kingdom	3,872	1610	0.008	84

Top States for MENZIES by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	293	8815	0.001	9
New York	211	8829	0.001	11
Florida	184	9766	0.001	12
Texas	142	11552	0.001	7
Michigan	118	10349	0.001	12
Top States for MENZIES by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	22	6675	0.002	21
Colorado	71	7493	0.002	17
Alaska	9	11384	0.001	14
Kansas	35	9070	0.001	13
Washington	75	9318	0.001	13

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

Classification and Origin of MENZIES

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	287	14.03
White (Hispanic)	100	4.89
Mixed Race	57	2.79
Asian/Pacific	27	1.32
Native American/Alaskan	9	0.44
White (Caucasian)	1,566	76.54

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

Meaning of MENZIES in historical publications

Said to be originally Maynoers, Meyners, then Menys afterward Meynes or Mengies, and now Menzies--a branch of the family of Manners, in England, the name being originally the same. I think, rather, the name is derived from the parish of Monzie, in Perthshire, Scotland.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

MENZIES. The Menzles, though sometimes considered a Highland clan, are of English origin. Their name was originally Meyners, and as Skene observes, (Scot, Highl. ii. 310) "their arms, and the resemblance of their name, distinctly point them out as a branch of the English family of Manners, and consequently their Norman origin is undoubted." 2. The name, according to Mr. Arthur, has been variously written, " Maynoers, Meyners, then Men.ys, afterwards Jleynes or Mengies, and now Menzies." It is pronounced Mengyies or Mengies. In Gaelic the family are called MenairieJi. Their habitat is the Perthshire Highlands, where in ITl. the clan could raise three hundred fighting men.

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 MENZIES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MENZIES.

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.