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    The surname Mealy

    An Irish surname, carried by 1,364 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex M400

    Mealy: #19,747 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Mealy #19,747, 1,364 people Mealy: #19,747 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Mealy #19,747, 1,364 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Mealy is more common than 87.8% of them.

    Origin

    Irish origin

    Variant of Malley.

    One of 880 Irish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,364 people named Mealy in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 226,353 Americans. That is up 6.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,279.

    #19,747
    rank among US surnames
    1,364
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.6%
    change since 2000 (was #19,526)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #19,747Bohne1,364226,353
    #19,755Wertman1,363226,519

    Who is named Mealy

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    70% of people named Mealy identified as white (not Hispanic), 24% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 70%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 24%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.2%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Mealy

    Mealy has the Soundex code M400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M400.

    Other Irish surnames

    All 880 Irish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Mealy come from?
    Variant of Malley.
    How common is the surname Mealy?
    1,364 people in the United States had the surname Mealy in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 226,353 Americans. It ranked 19,747th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Mealy?
    In the 2010 Census, 70% of people named Mealy identified as white (not Hispanic), and 24% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Mealy getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,279 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,364 in 2010, up 6.6%.