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The MEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 864 26538 0 3
United States (1880 census) 105 30436 0 2
Change since 1880 +759 +3898 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 32 35871 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for MEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 125 19083 0.000 4
Washington 59 12120 0.001 10
Michigan 58 21657 0.001 6
Florida 57 27906 0.000 4
Ohio 55 22652 0.000 5
Top States for MEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 19 8193 0.002 18
Alaska 8 13159 0.001 13
Washington 59 12120 0.001 10
Delaware 5 26306 0.001 6
Wisconsin 33 26152 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 MEY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called MEY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called MEY in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a MEY by picking someone at random in Rhode Island than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of MEY

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

Ethnic distribution of MEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 476 55.09
Asian/Pacific 319 36.92
Mixed Race 50 5.79
Black/African American 7 0.81
White (Hispanic) 7 0.81
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.58

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

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

Meaning of MEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to MEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MEY.

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 MEY

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