The surname Meals
A surname, carried by 1,032 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex M420
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,032 people named Meals in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 299,172 Americans. That is down 2.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,058.
#24,305
rank among US surnames
1,032
people in 2010
0.3
per 100,000 Americans
-2.5%
change since 2000 (was #22,670)
Who is named Meals
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
85% of people named Meals identified as white (not Hispanic), 10% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 85%
- Black (not Hispanic) 10%
- Two or more races 1.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Meals has the Soundex code M420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M420.
Questions
- How common is the surname Meals?
- 1,032 people in the United States had the surname Meals in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 299,172 Americans. It ranked 24,305th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Meals?
- In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Meals identified as white (not Hispanic), and 10% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Meals getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,058 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,032 in 2010, down 2.5%.