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The MERIDITH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 683 31924 0 2
United States (1880 census) 742 7023 0.001 15
Change since 1880 -59 -24901 +N/A -13
Other Countries
Australia 2 226089 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for MERIDITH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 63 21461 0.001 5
Arkansas 62 4900 0.002 23
Florida 60 26948 0.000 4
Michigan 59 21652 0.001 6
California 46 46774 0.000 1
Top States for MERIDITH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arkansas 62 4900 0.002 23
Nebraska 25 11161 0.001 15
Oklahoma 39 9756 0.001 11
Kentucky 24 12395 0.001 6
Michigan 59 21652 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of MERIDITH

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the MERIDITH surname.

Ethnic distribution of MERIDITH in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 571 83.6
Black/African American 86 12.59
Mixed Race 10 1.46
Native American/Alaskan 8 1.17
White (Hispanic) 8 1.17
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 0

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

MERIDITH is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of MERIDITH in historical publications

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

Similar names to MERIDITH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MERIDITH.

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 MERIDITH

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