The MULLEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	36,442	867	0.014	135
United States (1880 census)	14,104	411	0.028	282
Change since 1880	+22338	-456	-0.014	-147
Other Countries
Australia	1,034	1600	0.006	63
United Kingdom	8,178	746	0.018	178

Top States for MULLEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	3,195	344	0.026	260
New York	2,655	621	0.014	140
California	2,637	1233	0.008	78
Massachusetts	2,311	308	0.036	364
Florida	2,047	982	0.013	128
Top States for MULLEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	2,311	308	0.036	364
Maine	460	513	0.036	361
New Hampshire	426	407	0.034	345
Delaware	260	466	0.033	332
Pennsylvania	3,195	344	0.026	260

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

Classification and Origin of MULLEN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

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 MULLEN 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 MULLEN 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 MULLEN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	561	1.54
Mixed Race	452	1.24
Asian/Pacific	211	0.58
Native American/Alaskan	204	0.56
White (Caucasian)	32,681	89.68
Black/African American	2,336	6.41

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

Similar names to MULLEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MULLEN.

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.